Wk 4: Teacher-in-Role

Within this week’s workshops we looked at they use of ‘Teacher-in-Role’ and how effective it is throughout a drama activity/lesson. Basically the teacher of the classroom takes a role in a drama activity and guides, builds tension, gives more information on the activity, and gets the students excited about it. This position would physically help the teacher to assess where his/her students are within the curriculum and also builds a positive outlook towards the students. This can be called as an invention, where Bloomfield & Childs (2000) states that “Invention in drama is practical – ‘a doing’ experience that only comes alive through the act of performance” (p. 28) .I would implement this into a teaching standpoint by allowing the students to also have a say in what might happen throughout the drama activity, where I will facilitate and guide them through certain situations within the classroom and on the playground as an example to model appropriate behaviour to other teachers and students.

References

Bloomfield, A. & Childs, J. (2000). Teaching Integrated Arts in the Primary School. London: David Fulton Publishers. 

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