Drama in the Classroom!!!!!

Drama is one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of having the opportunity to integrate drama as a learning tool in my classroom. The most I read about art integration, I get more and more excited of I can do with my students to make their journey of learning an experience that they will never forget.

Since the beginning of the program,

 I felt very overwhelm with all the details and class material, regulations, and information that we have to know in order to be a good teacher. I also knew that I have great responsibility to be prepared as much as I can.  I thought that it was too much material and subjects to cover and not time to have fun with my students besides recess.

Now I can see that it is hope we have so many ways that we can integrate Creative Arts with the core curriculum and they are so…so fun to do!!

This past week, I have the opportunity to work with an excellent, hard working team to put together a lesson about Solar system from the core curriculum integrated with Arts. Oh my gosh.. It was awesome! We sat down, check the core curriculum, we chec

k and read about the drama core curriculum, and we brainstorm about which possible fun activity we could use to dramatize or present the lesson. I was amazing to see all elements come together for our lesson. Music, movements, core curriculum requirements, and of course the FUN-damental

 aspect of drama  (orle play with a group of students and being a planet of the solar system).

It was amazing to me how many other groups used great ideas to

 teach a lesson about history, and how the language arts and how history come alive. From improvisation, Narrative pantomime, tableaus, collective role-play, the characters story-telling and dramatization of different explorers (even though some students were making fun of my English accent when I give them a positive feedback), and

 the all students participation in panel in the role-play with the judge.    

I am excited to use all this tools as much as I can in my future classrooms. I love all of them.  I thing the pantomime tableau and the Newsbreak will be so much fun to use in Social Studies, science and even math…Maybe all the subjects!

Drama is an excellent tool to help our students to increase their comprehension, reading and writing skills because, students, in order to perform must know the content of their personage that they are representing (facts, description, personality, maybe understand their point of view or thinking, looks and likes). Students are expose to critical thinking and CPS 

throughout the whole process of preparation for the performing.

 What a way to teach so many important concepts and curriculum material all at once.