Introduces drama in the elementary grades, and encourages teachers to apply dramatic and performance skills and techniques to the presentational aspects of their teaching practice. Through a lens of story-telling, various experiential exercises help students acquire basic dramatic skills and techniques to develop strategies and approaches to foster dramatic activity and presentation in their future classrooms. Topics include drama games, story-telling and story-building, character, staging, acting, and thematic and cross-curricular integration. Work in movement, voice and creative play enhance confidence and ability to incorporate dramatic form for the classroom.
Introduces drama in the elementary grades, and encourages teachers to apply dramatic and performance skills and techniques to the presentational aspects of their teaching practice. Through a lens of story-telling, various experiential exercises help students acquire basic dramatic skills and techniques to develop strategies and approaches to foster dramatic activity and presentation in their future classrooms. Topics include drama games, story-telling and story-building, character, staging, acting, and thematic and cross-curricular integration. Work in movement, voice and creative play enhance confidence and ability to incorporate dramatic form for the classroom.
