Learning Drama Teaching Drama now available on iTunes and Amazon.
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Learning Drama. Teaching Drama.
The first book in our new Concepts and Strategies series is now available on iTunes and Amazon.
This series of books is designed to support teachers Kindergarten to Year 10 to include the Arts in their day-to-day teaching.
The series is organised around three straightforward ideas:
What to teach – what the curriculum says is important learning
How to teach – strategies to teach the content
Why teach – reasons why this is important learning.
Learning Drama Teaching Drama is written in a straightforward and informative style.
The first section focuses on the key concepts in current Australian Arts curriculum – in particular the Australian Curriculum: The Arts (ACARA, 2014) and the Western Australian Arts Curriculum (SCSA 2015). Concepts are explained in bitesize chunks – enough to get you started on understanding what the curriculum expects. For example, Learning Drama Teaching Drama looks at the building blocks of Making and Responding as fundamental curriculum organisers, the Elements of Drama, the role of Drama in our lives. Drama forms in the curriculum are explained
The strategies section outlines important tools for bringing the required curriculum content to action in classrooms. For example, distinctive pedagogies of Drama are outlined; planning and age and developmentally sound approaches explored; shaping Drama lessons; approaches to teaching skills and concepts; and assessing drama.
Snapshots of classroom practice are included throughout to help teachers see the concepts and strategies in action in classrooms.
