Reflection # 5

WHAT?: I really enjoyed this section of the book! I loved learning all the different ideas of process drama and how to integrate them into my classroom. I think that it is one thing to get ideas of activities but to get ideas of how to actually use them in my classroom is such a GREAT thing! Also, the group presentations we had there were so many different ideas shown and presented. I loved how they were all different, and so we got so many ideas from each of the presentations. Not only ideas that would work for the books the groups presented, but ideas that could work with multiple books!

SO WHAT?: I did have some favorite activites. I like the ones that involve the whole classroom for example: the activites where you divide the whole class into groups. I think that as a class this would be fun for everyone to be participating, not just a few students. Also, I really enjoy decision alley. I think that it can be a real eye opener for the children, because a lot of them do not understand the situation until they are actually in it themselves. I also really enjoyed the tableu/frozen picture that Ashley in our group did. This was a great way to see what the children are actually getting from the text as you read. They are able to make the picture that THEY would see as a group from a section of the text. I also really like Mantle of Expertise, because I think you can tell how everyone is feeling individually about the part of expertise you assign them to.

NOW WHAT?: I think that drama can be used in many ways. I think that it can be used, like we did in class, with a storybook or it can be used as brain boosters/energizers for the classroom, etc. I think that it is very important, as a teacher, to be very prepared in how you are going to use the activities the lessons you are teaching, because where the students will be participating and moving around, it could get out of hand really fast. I think it is very important to integrate drama in the classroom, because not only is it fun, but it also is something different for the students. It teaches them new ways to understand and interpret the text. Drama is something that they will not be doing everyday. It is important to shake up our classrooms, but to be very prepared in doing so.