Drama Tuesday - Stating the obvious
/What is the starting point of any drama teacher education course?
A drama teacher begins with a love and knowledge of drama as a way of making meaning, expressing ideas and stories and communicating with an audience. They begin with drama in their own lives. On that basis we begin to build an understanding of drama as learning, drama as curriculum.
Each year I begin by making drama – a collaborative process drama experience loosely called Play in an Hour – and spring boarding from that to ask drama teacher education students to reflect on their own drama learning in schools and the drama curriculum.
In a Week 2 reflection in 2018, Leigh wrote the following.
What would be your reflection if you reflected on 1) your own experiences of drama in schools; and, 2) your drama curriculum?
