Learning Episode 9:

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
“All dramatization is essentially a
process of communication, in
which both participant and
spectators are engaged. A creative
interaction takes place, a sharing of
ideas .”
• A dramatic entrance is something that catches
and holds our attention and has an emotional
impact. If our teaching is dramatic our students
get attracted, interested and affected.
• 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. They offer excellent opportunities to portray
vividly important ideas about life.
• Pageants are usually community dramas that are based
on local history, presented by local actors. • Pantomime is
the art of conveying a story through bodily movements
only.
• Tableau is a picture like scene composed of people
against a background.
• Puppets can present ideas with extremely
simplicity without elaborate scenery or
costume yet effectively.
 Types of puppets
 Shadow puppets
Flat black silhouette made from light weight
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 by wire rods or slender
sticks.
 Hand puppets
The puppets head is operated by
the forefinger of the puppeteer, the
little finger and thumb being used
to animate the puppet hands.
 Glove and finger
puppets
Make use of the old gloves to
which small costumed figure
are attached.
 Marionettes
Flexible, jointed puppets operated
by strings or wires attached to a
cross bar and maneuvered from
directly above the stage.
 Role playing
Is an unrehearsed, unprepared and
spontaneous dramatization of a “lets
pretend” situation where assigned
participants are absorbed by their own
roles in the situation described by the
teachers.
Thank you !!