Lesson 9

Teaching with dramatized experiences

All dramatization is a essentially process communication, in which both participant an spectators are engage. A creative reaction takes place, a sharing of ideas.

Dramatic experiences come to next contrived experience in the CONE. Can do this dramatic experience require us to be dramatic in our entrance into a classroom and in lesson presentation.

A Dramatic entrance is something that catches a hold our attention and has an emotional impact. Something dramatic is something that is stirring or affecting or moving. If our teaching is dramatic, students may get retracted, interested and affected and may leave impact on them.

 

Formal Dramatized experiences

A.     Plays – depict life, character, or culture or a combination of all three.

B.     Pageants – usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors.

C.     Puppets – unlike regular stage play, it can present ideas with extreme simplicity, without elaborate scenery or costume yet effective.

Less formal dramatized experiences                                                                   Pantomime ­– is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only.                                                                              Tableau – (French word means PICTURE) is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background.

Types of puppets:

-          Marionettes – are generally fashioned from wood and resemble a human body. Body joints (ankles, knees, etc.) are connected by movable hinges. String is attracted to various part of the body, but most commonly to the arms, legs, and head, and it allows the puppeteer to create very lifelike movements.

-          Shadow puppets – similar to the marionettes, but less sophisticated, is the shadow puppet. Shadow puppets are generally flat characters created from heavy paper or cardboard.

-          Stick puppets – like most puppets, stick puppets vary in their complexity. A stick puppet can be as simple as a Styrofoam ball head attached to a stick, or a two dimensional picture attached to a stick, or as complicated as two stick process, whereby one stick support the puppet’s head and body and the other stick becomes an arm and hand.

-          Hand puppets – are by far the most common type of puppet. They are relatively sample to create and readily to purchase for those who are not inclined to make their own, with a hand puppet, the puppeteers hand is placed directly inside the puppet.

-          Mouth puppets – are my favourite type of puppet. They appear more lifelike than their counterparts (although this is not necessarily important to the child).

-          Rod puppet – flat cut out figures tacked to a stick, with one or more movable parts, and operated from below the stage level wire rods or slender stick.

-          Glove and finger puppets – make used of old gloves to which small costumed figure are attached.

Other puppet ideas

-          Stocking puppets

-           Silhouettes make good shadow puppets

-          Cardboard face on a stick is excellent for lower grade children

-          Cardboard face fastened to a band on pupils head

Role playing: how role playing is done?

-          It can be done by describing a situation which would create different viewpoints on an issue and then asking the students to play the roles of the individuals. Any kind o conflict situation, real or potential, is useful for role playing or any situation in which real feelings are concealed. Consider situation in school, at home, on the playground, at work, in the government.