Philosophically Pedagogical? 

Come explore ways to make your classroom more dramatic, and more relevant to your students’

lives. We’ll explore…

*A Dramatic Approach

Not so much about using drama in the classroom as it is about tapping into what students

already know and using it to engage them. Here, a discussion about movies leads to

emotions and acting and stories and experiences. 

*Ideas, baby! Ideas!

After discussing this approach, it’s time to make it relevant to your life - more

specifically, your classroom. We will start with what you teach already and come up with

new ideas of how to connect and how to extend what you teach. The goal is to make your

class more relevant by starting with your students’ lives and then extending these ideas

beyond the classroom and back into the world.    

*Using Drama and Music to Teach ESOL

A video presentation of a possible application of the dramatic approach. The video

presents a drama-based curriculum focused on monsters, music, masks, and acting from

English Camp in Phuket, Thailand.

Focus: All