03-22-2007
saeed
Teaching Drama
Teaching drama or story needs very hard and practical work. It cannot be taught by a single techniques or strategy. If the teacher will not use a variety of techniques, he will be able to achieve the objectives of he lesson any strategy the teacher may use, students’ active participation is must. Without performing different actions students cannot learn the theme of the story and different skill which are used in the story.
Without students participation the lesson looks very dry. Some of the strategies which can be used to teach drama are as follow:
(a). Research task: Each group member researches an aspect of a story like character, settings, plot, theme. The information is shared among the group once completed.
(b). Students can be encouraged in discussion in their small groups and then in large groups by providing equal opportunity to each students.
©. Students can be asked to show different settings of the story in freezing position in the class.
(d). Pizza taxonomy: Open ended questions based on Bloom’s taxonomy are given to the students in their groups. Questions may be including:
Remembering: What are the main events?
Understanding: what are the characters?
Applying: What would you do if you were the character?
Analysis: Have you ever read the book like this?
Evaluating: What was your favourite part? Why?
Creating: What would be the way of ending other than it?
(e). Students can be divided in to different groups and asked to demonstrate the story in different ways like setting based, character based or theme based or any other.
Simply, any method which is used to teach drama will not be successful without students’ active participation, because students learn by doing.
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