Drama In Education

description

Artistic activities can help students to improve their emotional, social and language development skills. These events also provide a great environment for learning theoretical about foreign cultures and languages, bot theoretically and practically.

During this course participants will find out how drama activities are often incorporated in the curriculum material – how concepts, ideas, events, and people can be dramatized through creativity, improvisation and pantomime.

This course will target the techniques and theory through the practice in the way we use our creativity to produce entertaining short stories and drama games in the educational environment. Throughout the course of this seminar the participants will find out how to create interesting stories through creativity games and the way to adapt drama games in their educational environments.

target group

• Teachers (primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
• Teacher trainers
• Headteachers
• Principals and school managers

methods

• Lectures and seminars
• Practices
• Project works
• Collaborative teamwork
• Q & A activities

modules

• Module 01: Introduction to drama, history of drama
• Module 02: Benefits of having drama as an educational tool
• Module 03: How to implement drama in the curriculum
  • Icebreakers
  • Energizers
  • Warm-ups
• Module 04: Using roleplay as a learning method
• Module 05: Strategies and techniques of drama – 1
  • Improvisation
  • Drawing
  • Dancing
  • Narration
• Module 06: Strategies and techniques of drama – 2
  • Drama Strategies and Techniques
  • Hot Seating
  • Story Telling
  • Image Theatre
  • Forum Theatre
• Module 07: Strategies and techniques of drama – 3
  • Drama Strategies and Techniques
  • Cross-cutting (Split-screen)
  • Still Images and Freeze
  • Workshop : Directing and Performing Plays with Participants
• Module 08: How drama effect learning and academic success
• Module 09: What is the schools and teacher’s role in implementing drama in education
• Module 10: Developing social and teamwork skills through drama
• Module 11: A workshop on designing drama activities for children
• Guided city tour

learning outcomes

The participants of this course will

• learn the way to use their imagination to create interesting scripts,
• learn how to incorporate drama games into their curriculum in order to make their students more interested in the class,
• learn how to structure their educational programs and teaching methods more playful,
• increase students’ motivation, participation and confidence as well as their communication skills by using the body language,
• promote critical thinking and social awareness and understanding,
• increase cultural awareness,
• learn the way to teach teamwork, empathy and decision-making skills by using the drama,
• encourage exchange of the knowledge between the students,
• meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, engage in cross-cultural learning experience, exchange ideas and build network for future international cooperation and
• enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, broaden and unify professional vocabulary for effective dissemination of good practice.

We can offer you both 5 and 10 day courses. For the availability of dates please contact us using the button below!