To provide the teachers with a comprehensive training program that views and deals with drama as an important part of the school curriculum. This is based on preparing and forming teachers in charge of teaching drama at schools, on the one hand, and involving them in both the learning and the teaching of drama through production, on the other.

ASHTAR trained school-teachers and prepared them to be drama trainers for students whether as part of the curriculum or as an extra curricular activity. These teachers follow a two-year set program that brings about artistic theatre cognition in schools. It is divided into two stages that vary between intensive direct training at the hands of local or foreign experts, and direct work with students throughout the year under constant supervision of ASHTAR’s trainers. By the end of the program, the trainee obtains an official certificate that qualifies her to teach drama at schools.

Also, ASHTAR had and still has constant close contact with official educational institutions. It aims at enhancing drama in the Palestinian curriculum through the institution’s participation in preparing the initial drama training plans and lately through including public and other schoolteachers and supervisors in the Drama Teachers Training Program.