It's been another inspiring week in the Maple Drama studio this week as students in every class created original works of art with their peers!
Things to celebrate:
The grade nines and tens worked together as a whole class and in small ensembles to explore the creative process through peer-led activities designed to help us create unique drama works based on a common source. Students showed great leadership, teamwork, and collaboration skills this week as they worked to both lead and follow, developing a hands-on understanding of the process they will use to create a new work based on a new source with a new group next week.The grade elevens and twelves continued to devise a variety of interesting and unique material based on two different sources in small ensembles. Students have been very brave and generous in sharing their work and their feedback with one another as we continue to develop our collective creation skills. We've also been documenting our work and our feedback so that students can use this as a springboard for their next unit, in which they will devise a short collective creation in small ensembles before we bring all of our work together into a one-act collective creation as a large ensemble for the final exam production.
Things to look forward to:
As mentioned, grade 9s and 10s will begin working on a new drama work this week, which will be performed in class on Friday, September 21. An email about this and their unit portfolio (also for marks) has been sent to parents via TeachAssist, and should be available in your email inbox. After seeing such a great variety of creative and thoughtful work last week, I am very excited to see what new ideas students will come up with this week!
Grade 11s and 12s will be reviewing narrative-development and production design this week as they continue to familiarize themselves with the collective creation technique. For this week's portfolio entry, students are asked to "think like a producer," which will be the recurring theme of the week as we round out some of the key production skills students will use when they begin their final performance task of the unit next week.
Grade 11s and 12s will be reviewing narrative-development and production design this week as they continue to familiarize themselves with the collective creation technique. For this week's portfolio entry, students are asked to "think like a producer," which will be the recurring theme of the week as we round out some of the key production skills students will use when they begin their final performance task of the unit next week.
Things to work on at home:
Collaboration and teamwork (also known as ensemble skills) are essential to success in Drama and any other collaborative art form, not to mention in a variety of social, academic, and, professional settings. Collaboration is also one of the learning skills and work habits reported on the students' report cards in Ontario. Collaboration and Teamwork are part of our IB (International Baccalaureate) approaches to teaching, while Social Skills are part of the IB approaches to learning, and the IB learner profile includes such characteristics as communication and open-mindedness, both key to successful collaboration and teamwork in the drama class.
As a parent or guardian, you can help students identify opportunities to practice collaboration and teamwork at home, in extracurricular activities, in other classes, or at work. You can also highlight your own experiences of effective collaboration and teamwork from your professional, personal, or academic life, or you can explicitly model attitudes that make for effective collaboration and teamwork, such as a commitment to open-mindedness and open communication with others. When identifying, practising, or modelling collaboration and teamwork skills, try to emphasize problem-solving and decision-making over competition with others to help students develop a healthy attitude towards working with others.
As a parent or guardian, you can help students identify opportunities to practice collaboration and teamwork at home, in extracurricular activities, in other classes, or at work. You can also highlight your own experiences of effective collaboration and teamwork from your professional, personal, or academic life, or you can explicitly model attitudes that make for effective collaboration and teamwork, such as a commitment to open-mindedness and open communication with others. When identifying, practising, or modelling collaboration and teamwork skills, try to emphasize problem-solving and decision-making over competition with others to help students develop a healthy attitude towards working with others.
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