PURPOSE:

Drama is a powerful way of looking at things. The teacher’s role in a drama class is that of facilitator, not director. The student teacher’s task is to learn how to provide a variety of experiences in exploration, expression and reflection, and to structure and guide activities in the classroom. The student teacher must be able to adapt experiences and structures to meet the needs of her students at any given time and to turn over to them increasingly more responsibility for their own learning.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Drama teachers must be skilled, sensitive communicators who understand their classes and who understand that teaching drama is not the same as teaching a more traditional academic subject. The drama student will learn how to structure his lessons, plan and observe during lessons, participate in lessons (teacher-in-role), anticipate the next step in a sequence of events, evaluate the success of a lesson and of his students and seek ways to give his students a sense of ownership in their drama.