LGA - advantages of drama

1. DEFINITION OF DRAMA
-most significant model of
learning
-help children to think about
individual/social problems
-children learn to explore
issues, events through
drama
-children get knowledge and
experience in real world
DRAMA IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
-introduce problem-solving and
critical-thinking activities
-continuity is important
-help to safeguard the students’
opportunity for dramatic
experience
-integrate different subject areas
that can create wide range of
learning outcomes from drama
MODELS FOR DRAMATIC ACTION
Exploratory (how to do it?)
Illustrative (students analyze their
own interpretation of meaning)
Expressive (communicate ideassocial practical)
IMPORTANCE OF DRAMA
-valuable form of communication
-provides children with
opportunity to work together
-encourage students to learn how
to influence others and trying to
be in someone else’s situation
DRAMA IN EDUCATION
-child-centered education
-drama is seen as the ‘play way’
to education
-imagination and play is
important for effective education
THE ADVANTAGES
USING DRAMA AS A
METHOD OF
EDUCATION IN
ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS
COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF USING
DRAMA IN EDUCATION
-imagination and creativity
-play (character development)
-social aspect of drama (helps the inherent
qualities of the person making the effortsharing with others)
-creative problem solving through drama
(children express own solution)
-performance (communicate work with others)
FORMS OF
DRAMA
Dramatic forms:
-play
-improvisation
DRAMA IN SCHOOL
-teacher should know students
difficulties and find drama models to
relieve them
-student can interpret their own
feelings, learn work together which
help them to solve problems
VIEWS OF DRAMA IN SCHOOL
-Educational drama:
-learning through drama
-envisaging drama
LEARNING THROUGH DRAMA
-explore issues and people through drama.
Ex: history and social studies subject
ENVISAGING DRAMA
-places responsibility on children to work on
stimuli given by teacher
-children produce own ideas, decide among
themselves and create a scene with its own
characters