TEACHING DRAMATIZED EXPERIENCES BY: Anna Mae D. Dealca BSED- IIB

DRAMATIC EXPERIENCES come next to contrived experiences in the CONE. Can do these dramatic experiences require us to be dramatic in our entrance into a classroom and in lesson presentation.

I. Dramatic Entrance is something that catches an holds our attention and has an emotional impact. Something dramatic is something that is stirring or affecting or moving. If our teaching is dramatic, students may get attracted, interested and affected and may leave an impact on them.

II. Formal Dramatized Experience Dramatized experiences can range from the formal plays, pageants to less formal tableau, pantomime, puppets and role playing. Plays - Depict life, character, or culture or a combination of all three. Pageants - usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors. Puppets – unlike regular stage play, it can present ideas with extreme simplicity, without elaborate scenery or costume yet effective.

III. Less Formal Dramatized Experiences Pantomime – is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only. Tableau – (French word means PICTURE) is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background.

Types of Puppet Shadow puppets – flat black silhouette made from lightweight cardboard and shown behind a screen. Rod Puppets – flat cut out figures tacked to a stick, with one or more movable parts, and operated from below the stage level wire rods or slender stick. Hand puppets – the puppets head is operated by the forefinger and thumb being used to animate the puppet hand. Glove-and-finger puppets – make used of old gloves to which small costumed figure are attached.

Marionettes – Flexible, joined puppets operated by strings or wires attached to a cross bar and manoeuvred from directly above stage.  Other Puppet Ideas Stocking puppets Silhouettes makes good shadow puppets Cardboard face on a stick is excellent for lower-grade children Cardboard face fastened to a band on pupils head. 

Making Puppet Theatres Steps: Nail stick legs to each corner of a wooden crate that has two sides removed. Drape cloth from the bottom of the box and tack it around sides and front. Operators crouch behind the theatre. You may also use pieces of plywood, heavy cardboard, Or masonite to produce a self-standing puppet theatre.  Suggestions of the puppeters Do not use puppets for plays that can be done just as well or better by dramatic mean. Puppet plays must be based on action rather than on words. Keep the play short. Do not omit possibilities of music and dancing as part of the puppet show. Adapt the puppet show to the age, background, and tastes of the students. 

Role Playing How role playing is done: It can be done by describing a situation which would create different viewpoints on an issue and then asking the students to play the roles of the individuals involved. Any kind of conflict situation, real or potential, is useful for role playing or any situation in which real feelings are concealed. Consider situation in school, at home, on the playground, at work, in the government. The role playing has to be followed by a discussion. 

Postscript-dramatic experiences for midramatic experiences cater to students’ multiple intelligences. Plays, pageants, pantomimes, tableaus, puppets and role playing are obviously most fir for kinaesthetically intelligent. When pantomimes tableaus and puppets are accompanied by music, musical intelligence is work. We learn certain things quickly through an intense dramatic experience. These dramatic experiences, most especially role-playing, are most effective with lessons in the affective domain.