NEW! Sheila Dyer: Storyteller DramatistA little about me...
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Here's what I can do for your school during my residency....
- I can provide creative and inquiry-based opportunities, through avenues of storytelling (mask work, games, theatre sports, role-play, characterization, and puppets big and small); enabling children to find ways to cooperate, co-create, communicate, raise self-esteem and experience alternative perspectives while learning.
- For Example:
- Puppets bring children out of their shells. They forget they are talking and begin speaking with greater confidence through the puppets. Children give puppets personalities unlike their own and are able to see circumstances differently.
- Storytelling techniques can be used to retell an event from different perspectives to give new understanding.
- Teachers will uncover areas of their students' personalities they would not see otherwise. It is not always the outgoing ones that shine.
- For Example:
- I can create unique programs in partnership with the school’s vision to enhance children’s creative experience.
- I can provide tools and techniques that can be used by educators for future Drama and Arts unit plans and instruction.
- I can orchestrate school wide or classroom performances to ensure experiential and educational contents are combined with meaningful learning.
How will this program address the New Curriculum?
- The curricular competencies and big ideas of my program align directly with the Core Competencies (Communication, Thinking, and Social Responsibility) of the New Curriculum.
- Through narratives, the child hears differently. Puppetry or mask work will engage students to find deeper meaning while engaging their social/emotional connections and critical thinking skills.
- Creating space for Play-based intentional learning allows children to creatively express themselves, and teachers to emotionally connect different subject areas.