Drama – lecture
In today’s lecture, Andrew spoke to us about the importance of being confident whilst teaching drama. Building our confidence can help us to teach drama effectively to the children as well as helping them build their confidence Doing this is important as confidence is once of the four capacities in the curriculum for excellence document. In addition, It is important that children enjoy what they are doing. if children enjoy their drama, they are more likely to participate.
We also watched a video which showed us an example of a drama lesson being carried out in a classroom.
A good drama lesson involves discovering the unknown, learning new things and creating meanings (Wilston, 1998). Classroom drama is all about children gaining experience rather than them performing (Neelands, 1990).
Drama – workshop
In the drama workshop, i was involved in carrying out a micro-teaching task which involved planning and presenting a drama lesson based on a book. We were split in groups to carry out this task and my group chose the book “peter rabbit”. Taking part in this activity has helped me to develop my confidence when teaching drama. i have also gained knowledge about how the different conventions can be used within a classroom.
Music
For the music workshop, 30 students from Greenmill Primary School came to teach us about string instruments. It felt good to know how much children enjoyed being part of the string project. I learned some of the games that children played in school during their music lesson. I was also paired with one of the children who taught me how to play the cello. Being able to talk to children about their experience of music and how it benefited was good.
References:
Winston, J.(1998) Drama, Narrative and Moral Education. London:Falmer Press
(Neelands, J. (1990) Making Sense of Classroom Drama: A guide to classroom practice Heinemann Educational Books
