Theater Teacher

Summary Of Core Responsibilities & Org Relationships

The Theatre Teacher is responsible for designing and delivering developmentally responsive theatre instruction for students in grades 1–12 within a specialized learning environment serving students with learning differences. Instruction is inclusive, structured, and responsive to individual learning profiles, supporting students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, executive functioning challenges, and related needs.

Theatre plays a vital role in supporting students’ creativity, confidence, communication, collaboration, and self-expression. The Theatre Teacher creates a structured and engaging environment where students can explore dramatic arts through meaningful, individualized, and shared experiences.

Instruction is designed to be accessible, scaffolded, and responsive, allowing all students to engage in theatre through multiple entry points. The Theatre Teacher integrates evidence-based instructional practices that support attention, processing, memory, organization, and executive functioning, ensuring that all students can participate successfully in theatre experiences.

The Theatre Teacher collaborates with colleagues, Student Study Teams, specialists, and families to ensure that instruction aligns with student needs and supports overall student development.

• Demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding children as a priority
• Design and deliver differentiated theatre instruction across grades 2–12 informed by student learning profiles and developmental levels
• Provide structured, scaffolded instruction in theatre skills, dramatic expression, storytelling, and performance
• Develop students’ skills in voice, movement, improvisation, character development, collaboration, and performance preparation
• Create opportunities for students to build confidence, communication skills, and self-expression through theatre experiences
• Support development of expressive language, social communication, and perspective-taking through structured theatre experiences
• Plan and prepare lessons that balance direct instruction, guided practice, rehearsal, and creative application
• Adapt instruction to meet a range of learning needs, including processing speed, attention, memory, language, social, and executive functioning challenges
• Incorporate multisensory, experiential, and movement-based approaches to support access and engagement
• Foster creativity, collaboration, flexibility, and student voice through theatre experiences
• Use formative assessment to adjust instruction, pacing, grouping, and supports

• Plan, organize, and coordinate after-school student theatre performances each school year
• Lead or coordinate student rehearsals outside of regular school hours in preparation for performances
• Communicate clearly with students, families, colleagues, and supervisors regarding rehearsal schedules, performance expectations, and production logistics
• Support age-appropriate casting, rehearsal planning, staging, and performance preparation
• Collaborate with colleagues and school leadership to ensure performances are organized, inclusive, accessible, and aligned with student needs
• Coordinate basic production needs, including scripts, props, costumes, music, sound, space, supervision, and performance-day logistics, as appropriate

• Observe and assess student participation, skill development, and engagement using formal and informal measures
• Adjust instruction in response to student needs and learning patterns
• Monitor student growth in communication, participation, collaboration, and performance skills
• Maintain appropriate documentation of student progress as required
• Participate in Student Study Team meetings as appropriate to support whole‑child understanding

• Support development of executive functioning skills such as organization, planning, task initiation, sustained attention, self‑regulation, and persistence within the theatre setting
• Establish clear routines and structures that support predictability, participation, and safe engagement in theatre activities
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