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Gallery Walk!!!

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 An insightful Tuesday it was!!! From the creative and intersting podcasts that sounded like professional thouroughly researched information, to the posters that look like they were made by analysts and professional artists that are trained to grab your attention. It was all amazing! We had to give feedback and interact with the creators of the presentations we were mostly attracted to. This was a fun activity because we got the chance to experience information that came from someone else's box of creativity. The way that I had translated the posters and podcasts was enhanced the moment I started to speak to its creator. The message was visibly clear though, I could pick up the content without engaging with the artist. It is amazing how someone can include all that they learnt and the research in one presentation. The information on the presentations all had information on how drama helps us in our classrooms. People discussed the way that drama makes the lesson more interesting, h...
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Dialogue theatre

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I thought the warm-up we did last week was extreme? Ask me again this week.  Here we were full on exercising. We ran a couple of times, did some extreme real workout activities, and danced to music. What today's workout taught me is that we can manipulate our learners into doing something. This is something we learned about in educational studies. It is formally known as reinforcement. Rewarding good behaviour to manipulate the doer to continue doing it. In this case, Kabelo used music as a reinforcement. I noticed that most of my classmates did not want to partake in the activity, but as soon as Kabelo put on some music, most of them started putting in the work. To show further evidence that this method was functional, Kabelo turned off the music when people were not doing the right thing; he then put it on again every time they started doing the correct actions. He took it a step further by rewarding them with music they liked most whenever they would do even better. This is a hi...
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Newspaper theatre

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  Intense! That's what I can say. The warm up was challenging. We took it from doing regular warm ups like stretching and breathing to intense workouts like planks and other uncomfortable possitions. I think that Kabelo is practicing scaffolding with us. We used to do just stretches and breathing excercises and games to get our bodies, but now we are slowly getting into the intense part of warming up. Kabelo says this is what they do in drama, which is very hard to excecute but easy to believe. It teaches me that if we want our learners to get to a certain level of development or to gain a certain skill, we need to slowly teach them, until they are able to do it wihtout whining. For example, in the begining or the year, we used to complain a lot about getting tired during warm ups but we quickly got used to it and started enjoying. Even with this, adaptation is what will cure us from this difficulty we are facing.   Today we continued exploring the subject of newspaper theatre...
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Verbatim Dialogue

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 I think that the one word I can use to describe and explain this topic it 'art'. It is a beautiful to witness and produce, but it is also difficult to create or in this case, copy. Just like art, verbatim dialogue requires you to be creative. It is a creative process that in this case, needs you to produce exactly what you witnessed, without critisising any characters, but being able to execute an act that is clear when performed. It needs you to also think of the audience and how you can convey messages or meaning to them. It is not explicit as you do not mention the names of the characters and what the dialogue witnessed was about, the audience needs to be able to grasp these ideas from the performance. Just like instructed, I evesdropped on a conversation I heard in the school bus. It was easy to stay in character and not engage since these were strangers and I was sitting in the seat in front of them, with my headphones on. They were discussing the recent email we got from...
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Introduction to verbatim theatre

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 This day was more than ordinary, considering that I hadn't intentionally exercised in more than three months. It felt fun and energising, but also straining on my muscles. We started with stretches, then did some activities that we are familiar with to get our bodies moving and interacting with other individuals. We did the activity where we found the people that we were born in the first month with and stood with them in groups. Then we did lines with people who drink the same amount of water as we do.  These are some of the activities that make me realise that it is important to warm up before we start our lessons. No matter how fatigued we might feel, we need to get our minds back into our bodies and in the space that we are in. This is a strategy I intend to implement in my classroom. Today we learnt about newspaper theatre. What I got from this lesson is how we can take reported or experienced information and transfer it into visual and verbal representations while adapt...
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