Thrilling and powerful drama classes in Social Science classrooms

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              Velammal NewGen School,Medavakkam had the Theatre Carnival on 21st December 2018 in the school campus presided by the Chief Academic Officer,Mr.Nathan Sambandam. The theatre techniques showcased by students on the day are appended below.
1. Role play 
2. Literary tableau 
3. Skit
4. Mime
5. Puppet show 
6. Freeze frame/action clip & Thought tracking
7. Hot seating
8. Decision alley & Conscience alley
9. Open and close 👀 (using 3-5 still images to tell a story)
10. Soundscape
11. Narration
12. Character enactment
13. Mock parliament
                                      As teachers of Social Science we feel that theatre in Social Science classrooms teaches students to personalize learning, connect to themes that we teach, navigate meaning-making, empathize with others, and build up the speaking and listening skills in students which are needed for academic discussion. You’ll be amazed at how incorporating theatre leads to more engaged students, and less stressful classroom management for teachers like us. 
                         When we combine it with the elements of theatre, including simple costumes,props , make-up,music and even lighting it becomes a vibrant learning festival,the one we had today. And MLV:Making Learning Visible through theatre display is an authentic assessment as well, as teachers and parents  realize how the concepts are internalized by students and how the learning has happened.
                          Even Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, considers “create” to be the highest order of thinking and theatre in classrooms program in Velammal has scientifically used this to make children create and learn. Ask our Velammal NewGen Medavakkam students and they would certainly say how thrilling and powerful a history or civics lesson delivered through contemporary drama can be!  

                     By the teacher bloggers of Velammal NewGen School,Medavakkam
                                                   Ms.Sharmili
                     Ms.Kavitha
                     Ms.Kanakalatha


































  













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