Why & How Would You Use Dramatic Play In The Classroom?
The following blogs, vlogs, essays and interviews explore dramatic play within the context of teaching and learning strategies in English and Humanities, and as part of an aesthetic education and creative learning in drama and related art forms.
Dramatic Play, Cognitive Science, and the Literacy Puzzle
What are the building blocks of making meaning? How do we transform ‘sensory input’ into language through gestures & movement, visuals, sounds and texts to express our experiences, feelings, values and beliefs? …
Are We the Dumb Group?
Here I outline my plan to use dramatic play to strengthen the ground work by which ‘weak readers’ feel a sense of achievement by concentrating on learning decoding skills….
Same Difference & Rigorous Variety
What could an infusion of dramatic play add to teaching and learning? I outline seven units of work through which I demonstrate how dramatic play can build a trifecta of teaching and learning effects in enhancing literacy skills, sustaining motivation and practising academic rigour in our classrooms….
Is Role Play Our Superpower?
How does cognitive science add to our understanding of role play in teaching and learning? What does it tell us about to most effectively use it in classroom contexts? …
Let’s talk about personalising the curriculum
Professor Geoff Masters poses some confronting questions on why there was no guarantee that every student in the K-10 made excellent progress?…
Gaps & Bridges In Teaching & Learning
The relationship between teaching and learning often dealt with polemically: in black and white OR as indeterminable. How does a classroom teacher figure it out?…