The results of the study indicated that drama can be a highly effective tool that the children enjoy taking part in. However, for this to be the case, the right classroom culture must be created, support and encouragement of the children must be given and a varied curriculum surrounding it’s use provided. Introduction Teachers today face the challenge of educating children that speak English as an additional language (Rieg & Paquette, 2009). Pagett (2006) stated that ‘children from diverse ethnic backgrounds may find themselves caught between two cultures where their identity in each is strongly related to language use’. Using drama around a story could help to provide a child with a good comprehension of the text, therefore helping
Goodwillie’s book called, “Breaking Through” and Cameron’s book called, “the Artist’s Way,” focuses on two unique ways of teaching people about creative drama. There are many benefits of using creative drama in the classroom. Social awareness is increased through working with others, and pretending to “be” others. By doing this, a child can learn to understand himself and others. Also, Children learn cooperation, leadership, and communication skills.
Her approach to early education was developed around schemas. She believed “a pattern of repeated actions. Clusters of schemas developed into later concepts” Another key element of Tina Bruce Theory is ‘free flow’ play. She believed children learn better from first hand experiences, developing rules and props, freely chosen activity, rehearsing recent learning or celebrating learning, imagining the future, pretending and co-ordinated ideas and feelings. Tina Bruce’s theory was put into practice with the twelve features of play, some of these are: • Children make up their own rules while they play.
Personalized learning is successful in schools where student voice is engaged that’s means to involve pupils in the school community and in the process of teaching/ learning and the students are more motivated to learn and to see school as an institution more relevant to their lives. Individual student voices express points of view, opinions, ideas, suggestions, worries and concerns , some of which will relate directly to learning and to teaching including matters of learning curriculum content or learning style. A major role of schools is to enable pupils to achieve their full potential. One way of doing this is to help them become more effective learners and to carry this ability to learn into adult life. Is known that effective learning can only take place when people experience emotional wellbeing Another way of looking at the impact of
Whereas, phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, focus on, and work with individual sounds in spoken language. “It has been found that having good phonemic awareness is the best indicator of future success in learning to read” (Dooner, 2012, p.31). Phonics provides the necessary foundation for further reading skills and achievements. Phonics instructions help all students to improve in all areas of reading. Phonics and phonemic awareness are critical elements in developing good readers.
Once students have a sound they must, one at a time, say their word out loud moving around the circle. Students will practice saying the words that each child before them has said and will change speed so that the pace becomes quicker. Students can also change direction. After this warm up, students will need to come up with a word that relates to the British Colonisation and again must use their listening skills to repeat what the person next to them has said.Example:Student 1: ArrivalStudent 2: Arrival, shipsStudent 3: Ships, convicts | Rationale:This drama activity seeks to enhance students’ skills in listening and voice projection. This activity will also help students become aware of the events that took place in the British Colonisation of Australia as they are thinking back to what they have learnt to identify key words or phrases relating to British Colonisation.
2. Cite examples of how language awareness fosters school-age children’s language progress Verbal communication and language awareness is important and it plays a major role in developing their brains, connections and is crucial to development in young children. Daily reading, writing as well as language based plays improve their listening, speaking and language skills and also to help cope with issues such as social or emotional problems. 3. List some teaching practices that foster children’s achievement and some that undermine it.
Positive messages about their families, background, cultures and languages help children to develop pride in who they are. These messages also give them confidence to voice their views and opinions, to make choices, and to help shape their learning. The book ‘Possum Magic’ would be appropriate for Stage 1 (Year 1) students. I feel for the desired outcome this is a great age for building confident exercises and to help develop the child’s identity and to introduce an open mind thinking. 2.
The behaviors of children’s play already have activities that include some sort movement like finger play, movement games, or building blocks. The type of play that has the most effect on children is dramatic play. Dramatic play provides opportunities for them to practice language and literacy because of the use of props and objects, combining roles and themes, and by creating a make believe scenario and solving disagreements. Educators can allow time for children have dramatic play, reading, writing, and physical play. The physical play can be
Theorists Robert Sternberg and Howard Gardner argue that children who can make new connections and draw something new from them is a type of intelligence. It is important to offer children lots of first-hand experiences so that they can develop knowledge and draw from their own experiences. Social Models – These theories look at the environment in which the children are learning and the adults they are supported by. Social models link to cultural approaches and role modelling. Children learn by observing and imitating and so watching and being supported by adults who encourage and work creatively by being flexible in approach, solving problems and painting and drawing with them can help develop their creativity.