Teaching With Creative Drama : Teaching With Creative Drama: Stopping Activities

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The next thing that makes creative drama work so nicely and this is something that you have

to learn yourself and you will learn this pretty quickly by utilizing activities of

creative drama. You have to know when something's working and when something's not and this

is a little bit different from regular teaching because whether it's working or whether it's

not, you still get up there and write two plus two equals four, four plus one equals

five, you still do it. It may be working, it may not. But with creative drama, you're

up, you're doing an activity when it's not working, you stop and you do something else.

Maybe we're all sitting in a circle and our activity is called 'rhyme time' and I say

to my students, they're all sitting in a circle and I say, "I'm thinking of a word that rhymes

with cat." Each one of them is to get up in the center of the circle and act out something

that rhymes with cat. So somebody does bat, somebody does hat, somebody does sat, whatever

that is, we play that activity and then all of the sudden no one is getting up anymore

, everyone's sitting there getting bored. That activity is no longer working or maybe

I need to throw in another word. So all of a sudden we have taken a concept that children

learn in kindergarten about rhyming and we've turned it into a fun activity. Rather than

writing on the board cat, rat, sat, we've put it in the muscle memory but we have to

know when to stop the activity.

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