Integrating Drama and Language Arts
The Music Center of Los Angeles and the Story Pirates Playwright Program provided us with sample lessons. To streamline lessons into to our daily schedule and to increase comprehensibility for students, we added thinking maps.
Using Drama in the Classroom
Utilizing drama to teach English skills creates a real context for language usage. Developing our capacity to integrate arts and language added to our pedagogic skills, thus making it possible to maintain a student centered approach to teaching.
The benefits of using drama in the classroom are extensive. First the motivation factor is increased both for teachers and students. In addition, students' language output is also increased and the need to communicate becomes more authentic.
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Professional Development for TIIP2 Lorena Street Elementary
