The Actors Tools

• Speech/Voice
• Color my words
• What is the meaning of this?

• Body/Movement
What are you doing?
Strike a pose

• Imagination/concentration
• Pass it
• Bad rap
The Art of Tableau
 A definition
tab•leau (tæˈbloʊ, ˈtæb loʊ)

n., pl. tab•leaux (tæˈbloʊz, ˈtæb loʊz)

tab•leaus.
1. a picture, as of a scene.
2. a picturesque grouping of people or
objects.
3. a representation of a picture, scene, etc., by
one or more persons suitably costumed and
posed.
[1690–1700; < French: board, picture]
• http://burtwoodschool.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/
 How it Works
After reading a passage, teaching a unit, or discussing an idea,
ask the students to come up with a dramatic representation of
some aspect of the lesson.

The student groups can all be working on different topics or all

working on the same topic differently.

Give time for development and rehearsal and assign a director or

“painter” for each group.

Students will present the “pictures” for the class

Tableau Vivant
Social Studies Strategies: Tableau in the Classroom
Guidelines for Successful Tableaux

• Exaggerate it
• Freeze it
• Frame it
• Focus it
• Silence it
• Caption it
• Animate it
Remember You are 3D
Levels are great!
 Jumping off places
• Interview
• Animate
• Guess
• Organize
• Write
• Illustrate
• Discuss
• Capture
• Compare
Now Your Turn

Fairy Tale or
Nursery Rhyme
Tableau
Physicalizing, Personifying, Presenting-
Creating Character
Julia’s Song
Arts Integration and Differentiation
The big idea behind differentiating instruction is to reach all
learners by responding to their readiness levels, interests,
and learning profiles. One sure-fire way to differentiate
instruction based on interest is to employ arts integration.
 Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which
students construct and demonstrate understanding through
an art form. Students engage in a creative process that
connects an art form and another subject area and meets
evolving objectives in both.
 Sources and Resources

Multiple Intelligence and the Arts

http://hepg.org/hel-home/issues/15_6/helarticle/the-happy-meeting-of-multiple-intelligences-and-th
Science on stage
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/schools/pdf/sis_0017.pdf
Social Studies Strategies: Tableau in the Classroom
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Drama Games for any classroom
https://dramaresource.com/drama-games/
Foreign Language games
http://languageteachinggames.blogspot.com
Drama Based Instruction
http://dbp.theatredance.utexas.edu/content/role-wall
Drama in the ELL Classroom
https://www.teachingchannel.org/
Differential Instruction and the Arts
http://inservice.ascd.org/art-is-more-than-just-added-flavor-differentiated-instruction-with-multiple-art-forms/