October 9, 2019
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TDT: PRESENTING: Performance Skills Create a breakdown of ‘performance skills’ (this can be presented as a list, mindmap, however you choose). Choose one aspect/skill and create a lesson plan(s) to support your pupils with this aspect of performance. Reflect on the wider benefits of this skill. How might this support pupils in their wider lives? […] Continue reading
January 18, 2019
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Comments Off on Expressive Arts- Exploring Drama
After our first drama session we watched a short video on a lesson plan created and run through with teachers as the pupils. It was obvious that the lesson planned was very well-structured. I think that this particular lesson plan can be adapted to cover certain Experiences and Outcomes in the Curriculum for Excellence, depending […] Continue reading
February 3, 2018
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Comments Off on Providing a Structure to Eliminate Fear – The Drama Lesson
Drama is one of the curricular areas in which many teachers fear teaching. They don’t want to take the risk that if they bring their class onto the school stage, chaos will erupt, and behavioural management becomes more difficult to implement than ever before. With these assumptions, I ask how are we to encourage children […] Continue reading
January 26, 2017
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Task 1. Prepare a draft ‘drama contract’ to discuss with your pupils on placement Task 2. Reflect on the video about structuring a drama lesson, how is it structured, what are benefits of doing it this way and what conventions are used? What CfE Es & Os are being addressed here? Task 1 For the Drama …
January 24, 2017
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With very little knowledge or experience of drama before completing this TDT, I firstly had to research what conventions in drama were and also look at the experiences and outcomes in expressive arts to familiarise myself with them. Conventions otherwise known as techniques are the ways in which you work and move to create a […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Comments Off on Create A Drama Bag (Drama 1H)
As part of my Expressive Arts project I am going to create a Drama bag in which i will choose a variety of objects to represent particular characters. This bag can be used as a stimuli for role-play or improvisation. Object – Glasses Character– Old Lady/Grandmother Object – Tiara Character – Princess/Fairy/Queen Object-Guitar Pick […] Continue reading
