Australian Curriculum - Drama Rationale
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"Drama is the expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning as drama makers, performers and audiences as they enjoy and analyse their own and others’ stories and points of view. Like all art forms, drama has the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, excite the imagination and encourage students to reach their creative and expressive potential.
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Drama enables students to imagine and participate in exploration of their worlds, individually and collaboratively. Students actively use body, gesture, movement, voice and language, taking on roles to explore and depict real and imagined worlds. They create, rehearse, perform and respond using the elements and conventions of drama and emerging and existing technologies available to them" (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
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Skill Learned in Drama Include
Confidence
Focus
Collaboration
Taking Risks
Empathy
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Why Drama?
Here is a brief explanation as to why we teach Drama in schools. What skills does drama help up to teach that are important for students in the 21st Century.
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Pedagogy
I will be incorporating two pedagodgies into my learning activity.
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SAMR Method, which illustrates how we can use technology to do things we never imagined. Rather than using technology for a replacement of the written world.
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Blooms Taxonomy, which shapes and scaffolds the learning on a gradual release model. This is where the teacher led activities introduce the subject and are phased out as students move through the activities​
SAMR Model
Bloom's Taxonomy
