Theatre arts in Education Workshop

Theater arts in Education

Theater is a collaborative fine art. It is live performance to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. Performers communicate this to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech , song ,music and dance. Theatre in education is an innovative way to engage, challenge and inspire children and young people about important life choices and social health issues. It is a process that uses interactive theatre/ drama practices to help aid the educational process. The idea of high impact child-centred performance for a specifically targeted school audience became hugely popular .Linking the story to the given activities for very young children can provide opportunities for involvement. This work an educational aid, resource and stimulus for both teachers and pupils, but to do so it may vary form place to place, total participation sessions to performance and discussion. This make teaching and learning more effective in classroom situation. This make classroom as open stage and the children experience the power of collaboration and joint creation.

Experience

On March 5 ,2020 a workshop on Theatre arts in education and special focus on Dramatisation was held on our college. Dr. Satheesh (Director of Theatre Arts, University of Kerala) was the resource person. Workshop held in two sessions, with forenoon session a discussion on ‘Theatre arts in Education’ and the afternoon session on ‘Dramatisation’ . It was first and a great experience for all of us and it helped us to reveal the talents and skills in a limited time. In the first session the resource person gave the basic concept on Theatre , Theatre arts and specially mentioned Drama and its importance and implications in classroom environment. In the second session drama enacted based on the subject. In that session all students were grouped into 10 teams. Drama was hence a group activity and each group prepared their own script based on a topic of their selective subject of high school classes. The resource person helped in clearing the doubts on the script and then each groups performed it well on the stage within a limited time . Resource person assessed the performance of each team and made suggestions to make the drama more effective in classroom learning environment.

Group No 7 

Department Of Natural Science

Group Members : Akhila O , Geethu Elizabeth ,Merin Anna, Sangeetha ,Shehinaz ,Veena V

Topic selected for dramatisation was Health is Wealth based on UNIT IV. BREATH FOR ENERGY of class IX  biology.

Dramatisation is the natural and systematic en-action of life situations with a view to give realistic and meaningful understanding. It provide an excellent opportunity for group works and social participation among students. Thus as a teaching tool it teaches self discipline , positive response to criticism and cooperation with others.