Throughout this week we participated in both an Art input and drama input which we were able to draw upon our skills from last week.
This week’s drama input focused on more drama conventions and how we as a student, teachers can implement them in the classroom as teachers. As we were focusing on flashback and flashforward, we were also closely looking at improvisation which is a skill in which whilst acting you do not use a script or any sort of aid to structure your acting, you simply just perform. Very quickly I realised just how
important it is to incorporate improvisation into the classroom. The Educator magazine states that “the benefit of learning improvisation have been proven in both young people and adults to improve and promote: communication, decision, making, working as a team, social interaction, confidence, active learning, physical awareness and helping with anxiety” (The Educator Magazine, 2017).This statement from the Educator allowed me to see and understand how important it truly is for children to have the chance to use improvisation as it is a great way for children to express themselves in the classroom without being directed at all and allowing them to be as creative as they inspire to be. Improvisation is also a wonderful way that us as new teachers can get to know our new students, but it also allows us to see the ways they learn but also gives us an insight into how they do not like to learn. Throughout this experience I got to express myself in a way that I thought I would not be able to do throughout my university experience, although I may have felt slightly uncomfortable, I now have an understanding of how some children in my class may feel.
I also got a similar feeling throughout this week’s art lesson. This week’s tasks included taking a text and drawing all over it, however we wanted no matter if it linked to the text or not, we were able to be as creative as we felt like or wanted to be. The justify the arts chapters show us just how creative the children can be when it comes to tasks like these, children can understand a text more in 
depth as through tasks like this they have the opportunity to fully understand the text that is in front of them. This closely linked to our drama input as to me it felt like we were improvising. I also felt like we were able to improvise throughout another task were in which, we popped our hands in ink and the mark we make with our ink we got to create pictures. With the pictures we created there was no guidelines to what we could create we had all the freedom that we desired. This automatically made me think about what we were creating in drama.
Overall this week has shown me how important it is to allow the children to have as much freedom as you can possibility give them. Through this freedom they are able to show what they are learning and what they need help within future lessons. I believe that if and when I allow this to happen in my own classroom, I will be able to inspire my class to be as creative and openminded as possible.
Bibliography
The Educator magazine, 2017. [Online] http://www.the-educator.org/benefits-improvisation-teens/. Accessed 27th September 2019
