Drama Reflection 6:

Drama in Education Part 6

Based on your creative activities in the course, how do you formulate this process?

In our course activities, each student was responsible (whether directly or indirectly) for the creative activities of this course. Drama is a course that allows for creativity, initiative, and reliance on others in order to understand the creative process.

Teachers and students can develop this creative process at each phase through continually building a classroom environment of inclusivity and trust. It is hard to maintain such creative attitudes when the trust between student and teacher/student to student isn't present.

For our online class, we viewed a video of the excerpt from the devised play, “Can we Talk About This” listen

I thought that this video demonstrated the importance of communication in drama
In any creative piece involving parter/group collaboration communication is essential to achieve the desired affect for the audience.

How might you engage students in a retelling of a fairytale through ensemble drama?

I would engage students through an idea/interest that the majority of students have.

For example, in social studies, there are many fairytales one could call upon that might stir more interest in what the students like
Making connections for students and for them to see that you are invested in their ideas can really make a good lesson great
retelling a fairytale through ensemble drama requires initiative, confidence, and trust between students, so I would start the drama curriculum by demonstrating the need for these characteristics.

In summary of strategies and activities learned in our online class (and the other 5 classes of this term) I consider how I can integrate these approaches to learning into my classroom.

While I did not have the opportunity to teach a drama course in my practicum, I did have the opportunity to reflect on certain drama practices (such as tableau) to my social studies and literacy curriculums.
In mathematics, I often had students act out the problems, or use their manipulative pieces to act out the scenario/questions assigned.
This is beneficial to students, as at the Junior/Intermediate grade level, using locomotor movements to retain memory for a topic is huge. This process allowed my students to find their own success, and have a fun time with their learning.