Scene study if you want to get better at acting, because repetition with the same partner is where the work happens. A workshop if you want a specific teacher, a specific method or a jolt. An audition intensive if the problem is the room rather than the craft: nerves, cold reading, the tape you keep having to send. Doing only intensives builds audition habits and not much else.

Very. A stage class asks you to fill a room with your voice and to carry an arc from start to finish. A camera class asks you to do almost nothing visible, hit the same beat twice in a row, and live with a lens near your face. Studios that teach both usually keep them in separate classes, which is a decent sign they know the difference.

Take it for what it reliably gives: speaking up, listening, working with a group of people you did not choose, and being looked at without folding. Those are the reasons children's drama is worth the term fee. Anything about the industry belongs to a much later conversation, and a studio that leads with it in a children's class is aiming at the parent's hopes.

Read that offer slowly. Agents make their money as a percentage of work you book, so a legitimate one does not charge you to be met. A class fee that covers teaching is normal; a fee that is really buying access to a room of industry guests is a different product, and nobody can promise what comes of it. Ask plainly what the money buys.

Sometimes, as a deadline. Putting a scene in front of strangers forces a level of preparation that a classroom does not. As a business proposition it is weaker: who actually attends varies enormously, and the studio cannot control that. Ask who came to the last one, in what numbers, and whether performing is optional for students who would rather keep working in class.

Carefully and in the open. More than one adult in the room, a parent able to watch, and no visitor taking a child aside on their own. Scene work also asks children to play distress or conflict, so a teacher should be steering that rather than mining it. Which background checks apply to adults teaching children is decided by each state, so ask the studio what its staff hold.