Archive for February, 2007

02-28-2007

sara

Drama provides the teacher with a wide range of techniques and strategies which can be used in any classroom.  Objective can be to enhance students’ confidence or stage fears or arouse awareness about various issues such as corruption, values, customs, and traditions.  In order to achieve such objective a teacher can organize drama classes for the students to improve their language skills, confidence and get rid of audience fears the students may be facing.  Teaching language through drama is very effective because it gives a background for listening and helpful in improving linguistic skills thus. It provides opportunities for reading and comprehending. It is very useful in teaching literary texts as it helps in organizing plot, character and style. It also involves active participation of the students. The other thing I have learned that through motivating students we can build confidence in the students by encouraging their new ideas and by giving them equal opportunities to work together I coordination. Debates can also be used to give students a clear understanding of the topic. When the students get the idea of the topic they can get more ideas and can think in different ways to use that knowledge.     

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02-28-2007

sumera

Assessment Task 2

‘Drama offers the teacher a wide range of techniques and strategies which can be applied in any classroom and in almost all subject areas.’ How would you as a teacher apply Drama strategies when you are in the classroom?

Introduction

I have practiced a variety of techniques during this play building process based on Medea with Janet. I can understand the importance of Drama. Drama develops in the students’ personal and social skills and Learning and Understanding skills as well. Drama promote in students ability to explore ideas, use the imagination, body language and facial expression. In this way it is a sort of self-evaluation. Drama is important also for enhancing in confidence in students.

Techniques and strategies

Drama can be used for all subjects in different steps of lesson plan like warm up, development, and conclusion and for summarizing as well the lesson. Mostly it is appropriate for language and literature. There are different techniques, strategies or activities which can be used in the classroom. First of all it is very important for the teacher to create friendly. Students can feel relax which will increase interest and will improve their learning skill. Then some physical exercise can be ideal. Students can be given some debating task on which they can have discussion in the classroom. Role-plays can be given by asking the students to select some current issues or they can find for example some quotations which will be the reflection of their society’s values, culture and problems. Each student participates in different types of activities. For example some can be a narrator, other can act, and other can be comedian also when there is some tragic presentation. This kind of role can make the atmosphere pleasant. Teacher can ask volunteer for different roles so teacher can help the students to discover the unknown abilities they have. These kinds of activities are helpful for cognitive development. Giving students’ different research task can be used in order to increase their knowledge. It helps students to be responsible and to adopt habit of extra study at home. Teacher can play a role of actor and can give the role of trader, business man, banker or property dealer. This can be very effective for economics lesson. This kind of opportunity would be helpful for the students on order to improve their artistic skills. Drama can provide opportunity to a teacher to discover the interests, inclination and potentialities of the students.

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02-28-2007

shafiq

Due Date: 23rd February 2007Drama offers the teacher a wide range of techniques and strategies which can be applied in any classroom and in almost all subject areas for example a teacher’s objective is to enhance his/her students’ language skills such as speaking and vocabulary then he/she can use drama as a strategy. Another objective can be to enhance students’ confidence or stage phobias or arouse awareness about various issues such as corruption, values, customs, and traditions.  In order to achieve such objective a teacher can organize drama classes for the students to assist them in achieving language skills, confidence and get rid of stage phobias the students may be facing.  An attractive alternative is teaching language through drama because it gives a context for listening and meaningful language production, forcing the learners to use their language resources and, thus, enhancing their linguistic abilities. It provides situations for reading and writing. It is very useful in teaching literary texts as it helps in analyzing plot, character and style. It also involves learners more positively and actively in the text. As Wilga Rivers (1983) states, “the drama approach enables learners to use what they are learning with pragmatic intent, something that is most difficult to learn through explanation.” Introduction

To teach drama to the students, I will introduce the topic to the students after a careful planning. I will then provide a worksheet to the student and ask them to write their understanding of drama, what they know already know about drama. I will then divide the students in smaller groups and ask them to exchange their ideas about drama. The smaller groups will write their responses on a given butcher sheet and present their ideas about drama. I will then give example of great play writers such as Shakespeare, Euripides and Barnard Shah. I will also tell the students about the history Greek drama.

 Activity:

The activity is to demonstrate power, poverty, humility, shame and honour in
Pakistan studies

Technique

The students will be asked to walk in a circle and chant the idea of ‘power, humility, power, shame and honour’ three times and as they finish chanting they freeze with an action that demonstrate the above mentioned ideas.

This activity will give an opportunity to the students to speak, act and express their feelings in actions.

 

Role-play can be the best activity that may provide an opportunity to the students to express their feelings and performance in actions. The teacher will give a topic ‘Child Labour’. The students will be divided into 4 groups of six students in each group and will be asked to discuss in the respective groups. Group ‘Pepsi’ will mine, group ‘Kangaroo’ will perform verbally and with actions, group ‘Dolphin’ will compose a song about child Labour and they will act out. This will improve the performance of different groups. The group will be listening and watching each other’s performance.

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02-26-2007

zaiba

English task 2
Name: Zaiba
Group ‘N’
Techniques and strategies of teaching drama in the classroom
Drama can help the teacher to achieve ‘reality’ in several ways. It can overcome the students’ resistance to learning the new language.
Drama also provides cultural and language enrichment by revealing insight into the target culture and presenting language contexts that make items memorable by placing them in a realistic social and physical contexts.
Drama is not only used for teaching language but also other subjects. Many techniques can be used for teaching it.
Role play: for example a teacher wants to teach fourteen points of Quide-e-Azam in Pakistan studies. S/he can select a sharp students for the role of Quid-e-Azam a few others Muslim league members and a group of opposition then makes dialogue.
It will remain in the students’ mind for longer time and they will learn it easily. There are other ways also for example, discussion, miming or any other.

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02-26-2007

Ysameen

Task 2

 

Submitted by: Yasmin

 

Group N

 

Introduction

Collie and Slater (1987) focused on the positive contributions language learning through literature can make in that literary text constituted valuable, authentic material as it exposes that learner to different registers, types of language use.

 

Drama provides cultural and linguistic enrichment. By revealing insights into the target culture and presenting language contexts that make items memorable by placing them in a realistic social and physical context. Dramas can enhance students’ skills of creativity and confidence to express their ideas, emotions and thoughts through actions.

Role play is one of the important activities in the classroom which is used in all subjects.

In this type of strategy students assign different role according to their talents, interests and physical stamina. They may be given the roles of heroes, historians.

This strategy teacher used while teaching story in the classroom. students are supposed to act like an actor in the story. For example teacher give the different characters to each member they performed according to given role or task through actions.it gives opportunity to think some creative ideas to performe some role in the story .

In this activity students comes together discussed and prepared for their presentation then presented their performance with the whole class.

Using drama is very essential in the classroom it makes lesson effective and interesting .

Teacher to need he / she must know the variety of techniques and uses these techniques in the classroom it is the characteristic of a good teacher.

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02-26-2007

kalug

Task 2

Drama

Drama is the best and effective way of teaching the students, by watching and performing students learn more and it last in the minds of the students long. There are other ways and techniques, which can be used in the classrooms to teach the students and no doubt they learn but drama has its own beauty and its own effects and through drama students learn more. Drama gives more chances to the students to broaden their thoughts and ideas, it develop the thinking of the students.

Techniques and strategies

While teaching drama which techniques and strategies a teacher can use; In the beginning of the class teacher can ask the students that what are their views on drama, students will share their views on drama. After that teacher can give one situation to the students to perform, first of all students will be given 7 to 10 minutes to prepare the role-play and after that they can do role-play. Another technique can be that teacher can give written dialogues to the class to read and after reading; they will produce their own dialogues and will act.

Teacher will ask the students to watch a drama but that drama will be without sound, after watching the drama students will write their dialogues according to the situation and will perform, after the performance students will again watch the original version of the drama. By doing this activity students will be able to create new ideas and will broaden their thoughts.

Emmanuel

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02-26-2007

kaneez task2

Various strategies and techniques can be used for teaching drama. Firstly discussion about the drama with students and give more informations about it. There can be debate on the issues which are mention in the drama. Secondly there can be role play; it can discuss with students how they want to do the role play. If their ideas are accepted they are more interested to do and they will participate fully. Third strategy could be the narrators will narrate the dialogues of the players and they will just perform the actions according to their characters. The drama can be contextualize with the present issues in the society. The teacher can use any technique to transmit the message of drama. It depends more on the teacher’s creative and ability of involvement of all the students.

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02-26-2007

kaneez Task 1

kaneez         

Task 1  

Medea is an evil murderess, even a mad woman and therefore Jason is justified in his attitude towards her 

Medea is an evil woman because she misused her power and she murder because she killed her brother to protect Jason stranger in her country without knowing what will be in the future. She is mad, she left her family, country and went in a stranger country with a man who can not sure her anything for future. By killing her brother she has no opportunity to come back in her family and even in her country (v.47). Medea is an evil woman, she could not find joy when see her children. She desired that the children may die with their father. She is mad woman who hate her own children, no mother can do that. She is a murder; she killed her children (v.941). She has no right to kill anyone because life is a gift of God and given by God so only he has right to give and take life.  She is a mad woman, in anger she can do anything. To take revenge from Jason, she poisoned King Creaon’s daughter new bridegroom of her husband and also king. Jason is justify in his attitude towards her because he tried to help her and promised that he will care for the children and he is doing all for the future of the children. Medea is an evil woman; she has not human feelings and killed the deep feelings of love of Jason. He is justify in her attitude towards Medea.

 

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02-26-2007

Crazy Noor: Task # 2

Hollywood!Here We Come! 

Lights! Camera! Action! 

1.      If you were to turn your novel / drama / story into a movie what would be the major scenes, characters, and props?  

2.      In your group, turn your novel / drama / story into a screenplay by: 

3.      Dividing your novel / drama / story into major scenes. Chapter headings or major events work well. 

4.      List the characters in each of the major scenes. 

5.      Brainstorm props needed for each scene. 

6.      Act on the novel / drama / story with props but without words. 

Description: I will use this idea to teach them novel / drama / story. It will help them to concentrate, memorize and recall the story of their novel / drama / story at any time.

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02-26-2007

Shahbaz

Various techniques and strategies could be used in the classroom to make drama interesting for the students. It depends on the teacher how interesting he/she can make the lesson. Firstly I will divide the characters of the drama among the students and ask them to read the dialogues from the text book of their respective characters. Second strategy could be the students will perform the role play by using their own dialogues according to their own understanding of the text. Third strategy could be the narrators will read the dialogues and students will just perform the actions according to their characters. Another strategy could the students can record their own voices by using their dialogues on the tap recorder. Students can play the tap recorder and perform their actions. These are the simple strategies which can be used during my teaching practice, because within short time students can follow these strategies and enjoy themselves.

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