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.
Why Use Dramatic Play In Teaching & Learning?
What are the building blocks of making meaning? They transform ‘sensory input’ into language through gestures & movement, visuals, sounds and texts to express our experiences, feelings, values and beliefs. …
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?…
How To Be Creative In Curriculum Design?
Curriculum design requires both creativity and rigour. I test this approach in THE NONSENSE PROJECT….
Teaching Vocabulary
There would be little disagreement on the importance of broadening and deepening the vocabulary of young people. In the preface to Teaching effective vocabulary , the 2008 Chief Adviser on School Standards in the UK, Sue Hackman, compares having a good vocabulary to ‘an artist’s palette of colours’. Vocabulary is more than a list of words, and although the size of one’s vocabulary…