Product Description

This book helps professionals to understand the importance and potential of drama for learning and offers step by step practical examples of how drama can work in schools across a range of curriculum subjects.

Drama motivates children and is a powerful way of building skills such as speaking and listening, enhancing children's self-esteem, and connecting learning creatively across the curriculum. The book presents information, advice and a range of practical material that helps to explain drama skills and strategies at an introductory level. It also contains a sample drama unit for each year group.

This book covers a wealth of topics, including:

- What do we mean by drama?

- Playing, players and plays

- Where is drama in the curriculum?

- Why is drama important ?

- Where and when can drama happen in schools?

- What is the role of the adult?

- How can we start drama?

- Agreeing a Drama Contract

- Introducing some basic drama strategies

- How to plan a drama lesson

- What happens if…. A section that gives short answers to common questions asked by those who are new to working with classes of children doing drama.

The book is ideal for primary NQTs and teaching assistants, as well as those more experienced teachers who are not yet confident using drama techniques and whole class drama.

Patrice Baldwin is Adviser for Arts Development and Improvement, with Norfolk County Council Children's Services and Chair of National Drama.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95181 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Review
'This Primary Drama Handbook offers much more than just a few useful tips on how to use drama in the primary school. It moves way beyond the more well-known basic drama strategies to present comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the role drama can play within the primary curriculum' - English Drama Media

About the Author
Patrice Baldwin is Adviser for Arts Development and Improvement, with Norfolk County Council Children's Services and Chair of National Drama.

Customer Reviews

a great resource
This is a very good resource book for drama - i rate this book higher than most on the market as it gives projects /sow from start to finish. It takes you through different drama techniques and ways to delivery, once you have explored the work in this book you will have enough transferable skills to work on your own project.

A great drama resource book - well worth the money.

Really practical and non-threatening drama book for beginners
This book offers a step by step approach to teaching drama rather than just a host of dicsonnected drama ideas. It gives a rationale for drama and helps teachers to set it up and deal with responses as they arise. It is not a recipe book. It is a book for teachers who want to do good drama and feel secure about it and understand why they are doing it. It helps develop drama teachers as well as drama.