Drama devices/strategies

I'm amazed how the first drama class has changed my whole attitude towards drama. I've never had the opportunity to do drama of any sort throughout my entire primary and secondary schooling career. Just as well, because I'm no actress nor am I dramatic enough to play a role. However, the first workshop allowed me to get a different perspective of how a one drama workshop has the possibility of linking KLAs together. Geography (from mapping activity), Literacy (from writing, reading and coming up with ideas from The Green Children pretext.

I can definitely see myself making use of several strategies such as the warm up (high/low/medium positions), role walking and tapping-in. I am encouraged to learn more strategies on how to scaffold a classroom surrounding drama, and would love to delve a bit deeper into the inclusion of children with disabilities as well.

The particular pretext chosen, The Green Children, allowed me to see the varying degrees of creativity and ideas that sparked from that pretext alone. I loved that Drama allows for us to as the NSW Syllabus states, "explore personal, cultural and social worlds". There was a great amount of freedom to think out-of-the-box and role playing anything your minds thinks of without fear of a right or wrong "answer".

I absolutely love this still image. The varying degrees of expression and thoughts of each individual in their creatively thought-up roles speaks for itself. We had all come away from the original script and all had a different interpretation of the story.