Day 3- All the Worlds a Stage

Hard to believe we already half way through our time in drama class! It has been such a positive journey thus far... I have even started to implement some of the strategies we have learned so far in my musical theatre class i teach. Musical Theatre is a mix between acting and dancing... the students do not have to sing, they lip-synch but they still have to be performers on stage, using their bodies and facial expressions to tell a story. My students really enjoyed mirroring, flocking and caption making. They are an energetic bunch but we have so much fun on Saturday afternoons. I am thankful for this class at Brock because i am actually using what i learned with real children already! 

My Intermediate Musical Theatre Group 

I have found my self very surprised so far with the heavy topics we have been using in class. Today's lesson was focused on Martin Luther King and it was fantastic. I have never thought of combining drama and serious topics together, I honestly did not think they would work but i was wrong. You can take topics that you may not always know how to teach pencil paper style and teach them with drama, the students become so much more engaged and connected to what they are learning.

  I discovered today too that drama is a wonderful subject to reach across to all of the multiple intelligences. It is so important for teachers to be aware of the different types of learners there are in their classrooms. Some students excel by listening or reading while others excel by doing or interacting with others. This multiple intelligence theory can be used in the drama classroom to help all students reach their maximum potential. In Drama you include so many different aspects of these intelligences, you can read the same book and use a variety of strategies like dance cards, draw/pass, sound scape and choral reading and appeal to all types of learners but ultimately teaching them from the same main idea.