Lesson 9: Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences

Overview• Dramatized Experiences

Formal plays

Pageants

Tableau

Pantomime

Role playing

Puppets

• Types of Puppets

Dramatized Experiences

• By dramatization, we can participate in a reconstructed experience, even though the original event is far removed from us in time.

Formal plays • Depicts life, character, or

culture or a combination of all three.

• They offer excellent opportunities to portray vividly important ideas about life.

Pageants

• Are usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors.

Pantomime

• Is the “art of conveying a story through bodily movements only”.

Tableau

• is a picture-like scene composed people against a background.

Role playing

• Is an unrehearsed, unprepared and spontaneous dramatization of a “let’s pretend” situation.

Puppets

• Unlike the regular stage play, can present ideas with extreme simplicity

Types of puppets

• Shadow puppets

• Rod puppets

• Hand puppets

• Glove-and-finger puppets

• Marionettes

Shadow puppets

• Flat black silhouette made from lightweight cardboard and shows behind a screen

Rod puppets

• Flat cut out fingers tacked to a stick, with one or more movable parts, and operated from below the stage level by wire or slender sticks

Hand puppets

• the puppet’s head is operated by the forefinger of the puppeteer, the little finger and thumb being used to animate the puppet hands

Glove-and-fingerpuppets

• make use of old gloves to which small costumed figure are attached

Marionettes

• flexible, jointed puppets operated by strings or wires attached to a cross bar and maneuvered from directly above the stage.

Summing up If our teaching is dramatic,

our students get attracted, interested and affected.

If they are affected and moved by what we taught, we will most likely leave an impact on them.

Questions:

• When do we use dramatized experiences?

• What is the significance

of using dramatized

experiences in teaching?