Reflection #5: Process Drama

What did you learn about Process Drama/what did you learn from the other presentations? I learned that you can truly have students relate to the stories and experiences in the illustrated books. They can have fun and truly remember the information, but mostly how they felt. A feeling truly stays longer with students and they can remember that experience for a long time. I learned a lot from the other presentations. I learned that having a campfire and retelling a story can be taught in so many different ways. There are so many ways to teach information by using process drama. The students can learn by doing and it's fun and interesting for them.

So what drama ideas will you implement in your teaching? I loved the group that did the decision alley activity. It has the whole class involved and they can be a part of the story. It makes it feel so real for them and the thoughts and the words that come out of their mouths can be completely different than another students. I also loved the role on the wall activity because it has students take views from different perspectives. The story may be told first person from the main character, but I like how this can be used to write the thoughts and feelings of the main character on the inside, but we can also write down the thoughts and feelings of another character's perspective by viewing the main character too. Many of them are great, but these were a couple of my favorite tools that I would like to use for my classroom.

Now what will I do to integrate creative drama into my teaching? I will try to integrate it by doing as many subjects as I can. I can't do them all obviously all the time, but there are so many options to do for social studies and learning about the different people in history. There are many ways to integrate it into language arts and reading to represent a person's feelings, thoughts, and emotions and expressing them through their reading. In science, you can take on different formations of erosion, weathering, and eruption and what different ways to represent how these processes occur. All in all, I want my students to remember how they felt and had fun in learning and doing well on their assessments. I think it will help them retain the information better and in a more fun and interesting way.