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Comentario por Manuela Sanz Valenzuela junio 29, 2014 a las 1:37pm

   Estimado compañer@:

   Continuo con mi trabajo de investigación y he visto que has realizado la función de administrador o has dinamizado con tu participación activa  esta red. Te agradecería que me contestaras a unas breves preguntas destinadas a los administradores y dinamizadores ( miembros activos y participativos) de esta red, solo te llevará unos minutos.

   El enlace a las preguntas es el siguiente:

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Aih06I1tO6Ef_6DHzc4uVCd-Qcd8GDcb4q...

 

 

   Muchas gracias por tu colaboración y ayuda.

 

Comentario por Caridad Arroyo Sanchez marzo 29, 2014 a las 7:45pm

When I heard about the drama course and the possiblity of joining this website  I was immediately drawn to it. I´m pretty sure it will keep me up on English drama resources. I haven´t much drama experience so fa,r just some small atttempts on Primary Education. I will delighted to share out  and get some information about Secondary drama experiences.

Thanks in advance.

Caridad

Comentario por Isabel Cid marzo 29, 2014 a las 11:48am

Hi everybody!I have just begun to work so my experience with drama and storytelling is short. I have read a story in my class and I have done some little role-plays. I think it's interesting and fun to teach English through this. Although I have to say that when I was a young girl I hated because I was shy and now too, but I understand it in a different way.

Comentario por Marta Torres marzo 26, 2014 a las 8:37pm

My first interest in drama came during my work in summer camps, where the camp staff used to create a story for the children to develop during the ten days they would spend with us. I realised it was great fun -and hard work too- to prepare an outline of what the story would be like, and that it was really motivating for the children to be involved in such stories. One summer we would be in Hogwarts School of Magic, whereas the next we would turn into Greek gods and goddesses, pirates, knights or many other characters. We would make our own costumes, props and sets and have the children help us on a mission or solving a mystery through different games and adventures that lasted for days. Every year, the children’s response would be astonishing.

As I had had such good experiences and so much fun, I decided to learn some basic drama skills and I took some regular classes last year. I believe drama is very useful for teachers as it helps us be more expressive, more interesting and better communicators. I also think that drama techniques can improve memory, sharpen your mind and boost creativity and self-esteem.

This year I am taking a course organised by Calambur teatro, which focuses on improvisation. It is magical to see stories generate before your eyes without knowing beforehand how you are going to react or what you are going to do. Moreover, I feel the underpinning philosophy in improvisation is very empowering. When you are improvising, there are no mistakes. No one is ever wrong. You have to take any situation as it is handed to you and improve it.

I would suggest you watch any of the improvisation shows currently running in Madrid, they are quite special. And maybe you would feel like giving it a try ;)

Comentario por Ana Mª García Fernández marzo 21, 2014 a las 12:36pm

Hi everyone,

My experience with drama in the class is realy rewarding; I try to use it as much as possible with my students, especially in the subject "Oral Skills" (Ampliación de Inglés) in Bachillerato, although -if we have time- is really fun for younger students as well, because they love to perform and work in groups; as long as you prepare the activity with time, with a clear  set of rules they have to follow when working in their scripts or rehearsing them, everything goes well in the end.

Sometimes I write short skits the students have to perform, or I create a set of characters for a  role play; I also give them the beginning of a play and some guidelines they have to follow to finish it, so we also practice writing skills.

Broadly speaking, they enjoy all the drama activities, and shier students are fostered  to participate and speak.

Comentario por Laura Gonzalo Pérez marzo 17, 2014 a las 9:39pm

Hi everyone!

As a pupil, the drama experience I have had so far is being in a couple of school plays when I was a child.

I have always love drama, so as an English teacher, I like writing and adapting short plays for children since I think it is one of the most rewarding writing experiences. In my opinion, it is important to write what you love and choose topics that generate passion within us. In this way, our enthusiam will cross over the audience. But it is also important to make certain that our plays connect with the pupils too. In some cases that means to add a dash of fantasy or the play can take place in the real world, like the christmas plays my pupils perform every year. 

Moreover, I like writing easy scripts related to the English topics we are working on in class, with easy plots, dialogues and easy to create sets. Sometimes, I also give my pupils the opportunity to develop their imagination and creativity by wrtiting their own stories. 

Comentario por Mercedes ríos de las Heras marzo 17, 2014 a las 7:47pm

Hi! My name is Mercedes and my first experience with drama was not very good.When i was a child I was very shy and my teacher made me act in all the school plays. I hated it! Little by Little i lost a bit my shyness and i like it now, but  I still prefer to be the director!

Comentario por Ana María Pastor Casaucao marzo 17, 2014 a las 11:59am

I have always loved theatre, since I was a child, but it was not till University that I had a real contact with the stage. I and other students from my class created two or three abstract plays about communication, isolation, and protest. It only lasted one year but it was a really enriching experience. When I became a teacher, I started to include short role plays, dialogues,...till my pupils were able to act a Pantomime. Doing that, some pupils who were very shy, had the opportunity to express themselves writing some parts of the script, and some act really well.It was hilarious! We all had fun and learn something about English culture. Introducing the theatre in the lessons is not easy, but it is worth it.

Comentario por ELENA SIMON marzo 15, 2014 a las 6:52pm

I have practiced drama in classroom but most of the times with my Spanish students. We use to choose different fragments from classical authors as it is compulsory in Literature and they performance. On one hand, they feel shy but on the other they enjoy and have fun doing it. In English Lessons I believe it is more complicated due to the lack of resources and confidence but we are working on it. Thanks to these projects I will encourage my students to try harder.

Comentario por AMANDA MAY PROCTOR abril 8, 2013 a las 11:26am

I have had little practical experience of working with drama in the classroom, although I'm hoping that this will soon change. I have seen some very good children's drama performances at The English Montessori School, where my own children go to school. Original theatre productions are staged each year by each class in primary education. The scripts and the music are written by the teachers who in some cases play a musical instrument to accompany the children's singing. The theme of the plays often is often taken from the subject of a topic that the children have been studying in class. For example, I have seen a play which was the dramatisation of a Greek myth and another which was a dramatisation of the Seuss story "The Lorax", concerned with out environmental matters.

Although the English language used in these plays was at a higher level than I could expect from my students they have served to give me many ideas as to how to write a script for a children's play.

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