Day One: Drama is....

Theory-

Dwyer's Learner's Theory (1996)

Students remember....

- 20% of what they hear....

- 30% of what they see....

- 50% of what they read or write or draw...

- 70% of what they discuss...

- 80% of what they do or experience...

- 90% of what they teach...

Curriculum- 

Elements of Tableaux

Strategies-

In our first class, we integrated this theory and a tableaux was one of the first strategies that we experimented with. We were asked to form a tableaux about our feelings of drama, as if this chair in the middle of class was drama. Our class was full of many varying degrees of love of drama. This is just a snapshot of the love of drama in our class.... I would include a picture of those who were scared of drama, but they were already outside of the classroom.

Drama class has shown me a lot so far, especially that drama strategies can be integrated into every subject. I've also found that I have been integrating drama without even realizing it.

I especially enjoyed the "In a group of..." activity and I believe this could be used in many different examples. In our class, we used it to create shapes which could be used to diagnostically assess what students already know about shapes. It could also be used at the end of a unit on shapes. 

The thumbs up/thumbs down strategy is one that I used in my placement often. While giving directions, I would ask a lot for the students to give me thumbs up or thumbs down if they understood what was going to happen next.

Finally, a picture walk is a great way to get the students to predict what was going to happen in the story which was a major part of the ELKP curriculum. It could also work in any grade level as predicting is an important part of every grade.