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    USING PERFORMANCEACTIVITIES AS A TEACHING

    STRATEGY

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    What are performance activities?

    Performance activities are those teaching

    strategy in which one or more students are

    required to act a part. They may be very

    formal activities ( such as scripted play), very

    structured activities (such as debating), free-

    flowing activities ( such as role play), or a

    mixture of stracture and freedom( such as insimulation game).

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    When might performance activities be

    used as teaching strategy

    Performance activity can be used as a means

    of achieving a wide variety of educational

    outcomes, including acquisition of knowledge,

    application of knowledge to develop further

    understanding and skills and attitudinal

    change.

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    The advantages of perfomance

    activities

    Enganging students activaly in learning

    Enabling students to get the feel of situationin ways that might be impossible in real life

    Develop students communication skills

    Giving students opportunities to deal withcomplex problems in concrete ways

    Give students experience to interaction withother to gain a better understanding of theirown values and attitudes

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    Encourages students to think critically andcreatively

    Students can resolve conflict in environment Focusing students attention on social and

    political issues that relate with the real-worldproblems

    Helping students to understand the feelings andattitudes of others by experiencing situationrather than just hearing or reading about them

    Encouraging students to develop skills and self-

    confidence.

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    The disadvantages of performance

    activities

    1. Oversimplify the sitiation being investigated

    2. Usually consume large amounts of time

    3. Can lead students into thinking that they have all theanswers to a given problem

    4. May get out of hand if control is given to irresponsiblestudents

    5. May be very succesful or a total failure depending onthe attitudes or personalities of the participating

    students6. Can cause students to become emotionally over-

    involved in the situation being investigated

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    The preparation of performing

    activities1. Decide what learning outcomes are to be achieved by tose

    students participating directly in their activity

    2. Decide what learning outcomes are to be achieved by thoseatudents who are involved inderectly

    3. Prepare the resource materials for the direct participant and the

    other students4. Select the students who will be directly involved and brief them

    on their roles

    5. Explain to the other students what you expect them to do duringthe performance

    6. Stage the performance7. Debrief the students (both participants and other)

    8. Check that the desired learning outcomes were achieved

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    A formal performance activity

    (Scripted play)

    Short scripted plays are an appropiate way tointroduce students to the idea of learningthrough performance activities, such as debate.

    A procedure for using scripted plays :

    1. Preparing

    2. Briefing

    3. Oversight4. Debriefing

    5. Evaluation

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    The rules of script-writing, are :

    1. The script should be short

    2. The number of lead roles should be restricted to between two andsix.

    3. Action should be divided into a number of short scenes if the playmore than ten minutes

    4. The language of the character should be colloquial Australian

    5. The plays should focus on Australian content

    6. The plays should include humorous situaition to add someinterestuse some approximation of the custume of real-lifecharacters depicted in the play

    7. You could use use slide and music to mark intervals between thescenes

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    Some suggestion for using scripted

    plays

    1. Foreign language teaching

    2. Involving young children

    3. Helping adults to learn

    4. An imaginativ approach

    5. Correcting common error

    6. A shot in the arm

    7. Social studies

    8. Teaching science9. Creative thinking and assessment

    10. Mathematics problem solving

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    When might role playing be used as a

    teaching strategy To motivate the students

    To finalise unit of study and help students to consolidatetheir learning

    To allows students to explore historical or contemporary

    situation To chalange the students to questions their attitudes

    To develop students communication skills

    To teach content based on human relationship

    To develop citizens skill

    To help students resolve conflict

    To give students practice in taking real-life roles and dealingwith real-world problems.

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    The disadvantages of role playing

    Role playing can be time-consuming

    Role playing does not always take the

    direction one hopes

    Some students will be reluctant to participate

    It is often difficult to make role play seem

    relevant to all students

    Debriefing is extremely important, but may

    not be taken seriously by students

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    Implementation of role playing

    When you use role playing, your oversighting,

    debriefing, and evaluation roles are essentially

    the same as those decribed for scripted plays.

    However you may find that with role plays it is

    helpful to occasionally freeze the action so

    that the players and the observers have a

    chance to reflect on what is happening

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    Some suggestion when using role play

    1. Foreign language teaching

    2. Teaching relationship skills

    3. Role play with young children

    4. Teaching science

    5. Role play as an assessment tool

    6. Looking at the real-world

    7. Integrating role play with other teachingstrategies

    8. Computer-based role playing