Benefits
Drama Victoria values its members. We represent the voice of Victorian Drama teachers, responding to their needs and concerns in the K-12 and tertiary sector. We provide relevant, unique and high-quality professional development opportunities and resources to support all drama teachers.
Drama Victoria values its members. We represent the voice of Victorian Drama teachers, responding to their needs and concerns in the K-12 and tertiary sector. We provide relevant, unique and high-quality professional development opportunities and resources to support all drama teachers including beginning teachers, isolated teachers, rural teachers and returning teachers; with access to mentorship, networking opportunities and current resources to encourage and foster best practice in the drama classroom.
Drama Victoria provides its members with a range of benefits:
- Drama Victoria offers professional learning opportunities for teachers (and some workshops for students) throughout the year culminating in a state conference in November/December. Many of our professional learning activities have a cross-arts and cross-curriculum focus. Members receive discounted registration fees to all professional learning events
- Members receive online publications- a monthly newsletter and two editions of MASK magazine now in its 33rd year. The monthly newsletter may inform members on curriculum, review new text, provide interviews with key educational professionals and inform members of professional learning events, productions and much more. The MASK magazine is an online journal, which provides members with specific curriculum based resources, advocates for promoting drama education, reviews pedagogical texts to support teachers, reviews of performances and provides links to specific curriculum based topics. Members will have access to archived MASK journals and newsletters
- Drama Victoria offers members access to an online forum. To navigate your way through this we have developed specificly targeted forums for different levels of curriculum
- By being a member of Drama Victoria you are automatically a member of Drama Australia, the national drama educator's association and IDEA, the international drama educator's organisation. Drama Australia and IDEA also run conferences and produce publications available to our members
- We have a selection of publications for sale in our online bookstore specifically targeting key areas of the curriculum to support drama educators. This mail order service operates throughout the year
- We also have a library of resources able to be borrowed by members only
- We can assist you a number of course outlines, lesson plans and units of work for the year level(s) you are currently teaching (P-12).
- Via our extensive membership base we can put you in contact with other teachers who are teaching the same year level(s) and subject(s) you are teaching (Drama and/or Theatre Studies)
- Drama Victoria is the peak advocacy body for Drama in the state. As a member you will join a network of literally hundreds of other teachers from the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary sectors. We represent members on a number of curriculum development and administrative committees regarding the teaching of Drama in Victoria, nationally and internationally. We are also linked to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD), Council of Professional Teaching Associations in Victoria and NAAE, the National Affiliation of Arts Educators, that also promote arts education