Ted Tibbetts teaches English and Shakespeare at Poland Regional High School. He has served as the faculty advisor for the Portland High School Shakespeare Club, a Shakespearean acting troupe. A Russell Award winner, a State of Maine Teacher of the Year Finalist in 2001-02 and a Milken Award Winner in 2001-02, he has presented at the National Council of Teachers of English conference, the New England Council of Teachers of English, and been featured in The Portland Press Herald and The Casco Bay Weekly.

Contact Ted via our contact form if you would like to make arrangements for a workshop on teaching Shakespeare through performance.

“Once you've taught Shakespeare through performance like this, you know it is the only way to teach his plays!”
- Roger Cantello, English Teacher, Ethel Walker School, Simsbury, CT

“ This [approach] has definitely changed me. At the beginning of the year I was a shy person and was too nervous to even talk in front of my peers. I am a different person now. I have a more outgoing personality due to working on this unit.”
-Marcy Regan, Student, Portland High School

• Creating a student friendly environment
• Encouraging students to take risks

• Improving students’ ability to speak clearly and with
conviction
• Increasing students’ ability to visualize the imagery in Shakespeare’s language
• Developing students’ textual interpretation skills

• Using methods that make Shakespearean texts exciting
• Enabling students to appreciate Shakespeare and even to love it!