More exciting news!! I have graduated with my LTCL (Licentiate) in teaching speech and drama. It feels like a huge weight off my shoulders after three long years of study and teaching. I look forward to supporting anyone to is currently completing their LTCL.
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Jonothan Neelands = Genius
Last week I finished reading and recording notes from Jonothan Neelands book Structuring Drama Work – A handbook of available forms in theatre and drama. One word – GENIUS! In this book Jonothan gives us a guide to dramatic conventions – the conventions chosen emphasise theatre’s traditional role as an educative form. Jonothan breaks the […]
Teaching Shakespeare
Another article I have read recently that really got my attention is Teaching Shakespeare as Drama by Ken Watson. (Thanks Ken!) This article made me so excited about teaching Shakespeare that I emailed all the schools in my area and asked whether any of them were doing Shakespeare – lucky for me one of them […]
Drama and the Teaching of Poetry
Just recently I have read an article by John Hughes and Roslyn Arnold called Drama and the Teaching of Poetry. I really liked this article because it gave me some drama-based approaches to teaching poetry in the classroom. I believe that children need to experience poetry before they will care about how it is constructed […]
Debating Competition 2011
On the 11th of December, I held a debating competition for all of the senior drama club pupils (8 years and over). During the term, students learnt the structure and rules of debating. Pupils were given a topic at the end of each class to prepare for the following week. Pupils had seven weeks learn […]