Drama Strategies For Teachers In The Classroom

Drama strategies - also known as drama techniques or drama conventions - are the everyday tools of the drama teacher. They help to develop enquiry skills, to encourage negotiation, understanding and creativity. They can enhance performance skills such as character development and storytelling and be used across the curriculum to actively involve students in their own learning.

   Story-telling:
Storytelling is one of the simplest and perhaps most compelling forms of dramatic and imaginative activity. A good place to start is by telling stories to your pupils and encouraging them to share stories with one another. All of us can become engaging storytellers with a little practice. There may also be members of staff who are particularly skilled at telling stories, or you could invite a professional storyteller (such as Hugh Lupton in the video below) into the school. Listen to each other, watch videos of storytelling and encourage the children to identify techniques they could use in their own stories.Rather than learning stories by rote pupils should identify key images and important moments, and retell the story in their own words. Still images can be used to mark out those key moments, as can drawing storyboards and story maps or (for younger children) sorting pictures into the right order. It is well worth playing some games to develop oral skills and get the creative juices flowing. These can help to develop vocabulary, story- making and storytelling techniques.

Other Strategies:

Conscience Alley
Cross-Cutting
Flashbacks and Flash Forwards
Forum Theatre
Hot Seating
Image Theatre
Mantle of the Expert
Marking the Moment
Narration
Open and Close
Role on the Wall
Role Play
Soundscape
Spotlight
Still Images & Freeze Frames
Story telling
Tableaux
Teacher in Role
Thought Tracking

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Horana Isheja - Mwalimu LAKHPIN

Simpuga impundu impinga z’impingane      

Mpashiriye impundu mpera mu mpozo

Impumbya urampa impamba mpambiririwe

Impuhwe zawe zimpunzweho impu zombie

Umukunzi warindutse urukundo

Umuhindo w’iyariho

Uhora ahimbye ubuhozi

Utinzwe urukundo rwuje urwuri

Arwanirira umurwa

Isango ye isobetse isibo y’umusubizo

Mu isubiza isuma iruta byose

Ifudika y’ijambo ryayo

Irandengera mpabuka

      Horana isheja mubyeyi wacu

      Imbere yawe hahore abera

     Ko wahunzwe ya mazimano

     Abarya umwanda barawutaye

Yakaranzwe ubuzare ubukombe yimezemo

Igoga igira ingoga nagonzwe

Iyo abacyomwa bagera ubwabo

Ni karuhura uhatse umutungo

Uratorwe iteka uturwe ishakwe

Umutoya agutake ntutanga bike

Watowe ubutware imitwe ikinje ikiriri

Imfura yawe itugeza I Rwanda

Ni impuhwe uhari na buri munsi

Washâaje benshi bamaze ibyabo

Na cyo igitambo ntikikigoye

Ushinjwa kwanga imburamuco

Urambe utaramanye natwe iteka

Tugutake bitinde tugusenga

Mpore mpoze impogazi mukunzi

Zigire ituze rifite ishinjo. 
   
      © Lakhpin 2008

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When Do Hassles Start?

In life, before we take rid of situations, we must get the whys and whens. The bitterness of the problem varies according to the source of it and it grows up and up until it becomes a burden that is hard to lift.

Brave whose parents were cultivators grew up in Runda, the village that was famous for farming and breeding? He used to look after pigs in the morning while her parents woke up heading to the farm. Brave was the best cook at home exceptionally.  His father could not eat when he did not cook pork. One day in the valley looking after whiter pigs, he was composing a song on a small sheet of paper and in that moment, he realized one pig was missing. 

He went to and fro but never got a hint. It has been stolen. He immediately went home with the rest absent minded and lost. He could do nothing at the moment. When the parent got home in the evening, they found him sitting at the front door cross-legged and crying. They looked at each other wondering about what happened to him. Her mother eventually ran to him and started to council. His momma was so hungry, so she entered the kitchen and found Brave did not cook, not even a single plate washed. Sebastian was taking a look at their pigs and found one was missing so, he got furious. Brave was afraid and started to get up. When the mother came out yelling:“you bastard”. They took up the sticks to beat him up and Brave started to run away. That’s why Brave begun his journey to town where he started to hassle in the street. He swore to never get back home.

So, does it start when things are not bad that easy all the times in the family? Or something else. If just correcting a kid can push him to street life, what rejecting him can do? What insulting, forcing, ...him can do? 

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What Is Love? A Glimpse of Insights by Mwalimu LAKHPIN

Love is the feelings that you never need something or someone of your possession disappear from you. It is specializing an individual or something amongst others of the same nature. Most of the times, it is based on the feeling of pleasure that you empathize the well-being of another and adhere somebody else’s attitudes. The term is commonly and so often used in relationships between men and women. But don’t forget that you can love: a person, food, music, theatre/movies, traveling…and even animals do.

It is an art of preferences i.e. the things that when lost or missed can get you in the situation of despair, where you feel you can even die by that kind of loss. Let’s get back to love between people. What matters is true love than a general or an easy so-called love which is frequently sung in almost the singers and found in them but at the very end of time find it a hurting and disappointing asset that finally every body assumes to never get rid of.

According to Wikipedia, Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to pleasure. It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.

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