USING DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL - Reeling & Writhing
USING DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL - Reeling & Writhing
USING DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL - Reeling & Writhing
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Evaluating your process<br />
and practice<br />
Before evaluating your process and practice using drama as a teaching<br />
tool, first consider revising the eight points for action as detailed within<br />
‘Control versus Expression - Trouble Shooting’ as well as our suggested<br />
workshop structure detailed in ‘What to do now!’.<br />
We find the following handful of questions useful when evaluating our<br />
own teaching sessions. Use the following questions to evaluate your<br />
workshop. Before attempting to answer, first consider and compare<br />
your written workshop plan with the actual workshop you conducted.<br />
Were the pupils engaged in the set tasks?<br />
If the pupils were disengaged, when in the workshop was that and was<br />
it avoidable?<br />
Were my instructions clear?<br />
Was my time management of each section effective? Was there time<br />
to cover all the set objectives?<br />
Were the class able to tell me what they had learned at the end of the<br />
session – both in terms of topic area and drama techniques used?<br />
At the conclusion of the workshop, how did I evaluate the session with<br />
the children? Did I use a successful mixture of open and closed questions?<br />
Did I have confidence and control of the class, whilst still allowing the<br />
young people freedom to experiment with ideas?<br />
WHERE TO GET <strong>DRAMA</strong> SUPPORT<br />
IF YOU GET INTO A PICKLE<br />
Katherine Morley, Artistic Director at <strong>Reeling</strong> & <strong>Writhing</strong><br />
(katherine@reelingwrithing.com)<br />
Fiona Macfarlane, Cultural Co-ordinator for Drama and Film at West<br />
Lothian Council (fiona.macfarlane@wled.org.uk)
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