Observations
Yr
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Yr
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Yr
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Yr
6 / 7
Comments
from teachers
While on Teaching
Practicum the following examples of Drama were
observed:
Year
1/2 - Performance Poetry
At the biweekly
School Assembly the children did a poetry
performance.
The children had
worked on preparing a large poster to act as a backdrop to
their performance.
As one child read a
line from the poem, three other children acted out the
words. Then the next group would perform the next line, and
so on. All children made up their own actions.
The children had
learnt about the importance of simple props, reading in
public and acting out the words of the poem.
In this instance the
children were provided with an opportunity to respond in a
meaningful way to a poem. From an educational perspective,
this assisted in their appreciation and understanding of
literacy.
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Year
3/4 - Mime
The teacher set the
theme as "emotions".
Children
brainstormed to come up with several emotions and these were
recorded on a white board. They discussed how these emotions
could be seen on a person's face and in their 'body
language'.
A simple scene of a
bus was set up. The activity was that the bus driver would
start out with an empty bus and as he picked up passengers
he and all the other passengers would take on the emotion of
the latest passenger. At the end of the activity each
student had to tell the class what emotion he or she was
conveying.
The activity was
enthusiastically embraced by all the students both as actors
and as audience.
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Year
4/5 - Improvisation
Teacher split the
class into several small groups and then set several
'scenes'.
Each group was given
a 'scene' and given five minutes to come up with an informal
script/story.
With no props, each
group would perform their 'play' to the rest of the
class.
With no formal
script the children were allowed to let their imaginations
run wild and so the enthusiasm of each of the groups was
only limited by the short performance time given to each
group.
This activity
provokes spontaneity and quick thinking.
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Year
4/5 - Video Lesson
Children had studied
Australian Explorers as a Society and Environment
topic.
One group researched
Bourke and Wills.
After they had
presented the findings of their research to the class, the
class watched a video of Bourke and Wills.
They then critically
examined the video content in relation to what information
they had discovered during their research.
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Year
6/7 - Scripted Play
At the biweekly
School Assembly the children performed a scripted
play.
The children had
researched Federation in the lead up to the presentation of
the Federation Medallions. Together with their teacher they
had prepared a script, appropriate simple props along with
background music. The play was rehearsed several times and
then performed in front of the entire school.
On speaking with the
students it was clear that they had gained a greater
understanding of 'Federation'. This was not achieved merely
through the amount of time spent covering the topic, but
rather the enthusiasm a re-enactement of it
generated.
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