Introduction To Drama In The Classroom

The Guide Book

• Use of drama in classrooms teaching & learning
• Shows enormous potential of drama as a learning tool
• Improve students’ interest in using the English Language
• Not about training actors and actresses
• Explore human conditions, stimulating students to better understand themselves and the world
• Not prescriptive but ideas to share
• Teacher decides
• Photocopiable handouts or task sheets
• Friendly, useful, adaptable
• Joyful and fun learning to suit teaching environment and students
• Your students “gulping and gasping” for more!

What is Drama?

• Performances where actors work together to represent stories by impersonating the actions and speech of imaginary characters
• Usually performed on stage for the audience

Why Drama?

• A social art where no one person can produce a play by himself.
• A collective effort and product of many relationships: writers, director, actors, a group of people who design and build the stage, props, costumes etc.
• Introducing drama to children gives opportunity to seek knowledge, create a presentation, be someone or something, explore a situation and to work and learn together with friends and strangers.

"Tell me and I will forget.
Show me and I will remember.
Involve me and I will understand."                          - Chinese Proverb