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Chasing Fleeing Animals -- On the Dramaturgical Method and the Dramaturgical Analysis of Teaching
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Bakke, Jannike Ohrem; Lindstøl, Fride – Research in Drama Education, 2021
The dramaturgical method has been used to analyse teaching and didactic contexts, but the method is not adequately described or established in such contexts. In this article we use dramaturgy as a lens for describing and analysing teaching. The teaching examples are taken from a professional workshop where student teachers and their instructors…
Descriptors: Drama, Teaching Methods, Student Teaching, Student Teachers
Communicating Science through Theatre: Middle School Students' Noticings and Articulations of 'Doing' and 'Being' in Science after a Theatre Performance
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McKinley-Hicks, Megan – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
This paper highlights an investigation of how middle school students responded to a theatre performance designed to portray science as a humanistic and relatable endeavour that youth -- similar to the youth in the audience -- engage in during their everyday lives. The play included in this study was generated as a part of a design research project…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Theater Arts, Cooperation
Implementing and Assessing the Effects of Theatre Infused Reading Instruction in Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade Middle School English Classrooms
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Eyerly, William J., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Theatre instructional techniques, including reader's theatre and process drama teaching strategies, have been employed as instructional strategies in classrooms to enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary learning in students. In this era of increasing accountability for educational outcomes, quantifying what, if any, impact such instructional…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Combining Readers Theater, Story Mapping and Video Self-Modeling Interventions to Improve Narrative Reading Comprehension in Children with High-Functioning Autism
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Schatz, Rochelle B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Individuals with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (HFA) demonstrate atypical development resulting in significant deficits in the areas of perspective-taking and observational learning. These deficits lead to challenges in social interactions and academic performance. In particular, children with HFA tend to struggle with comprehending…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Perspective Taking, Interaction
Fluency and the Understanding of Texts.
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Stayter, Francine Z.; Allington, Richard L. – Theory into Practice, 1991
The relationship of syntactic sensitivities to fluency and understanding are usually neglected when discussing reading fluency. The article describes oral reading and interpretation activities in one seventh grade class undertaken to improve comprehension and fluency. It also discusses evaluation methods, such as portfolios and recordings as…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Evaluation Methods, Grade 7, Junior High Schools
Eliot's "Cats" and a CATalog of Language Arts Activities.
Stoeberl, Susan M. – 1987
Inspired by the Broadway musical "Cats" and by T. S. Eliot's collection of poems, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," this language arts teaching unit for seventh grade includes a variety of activities using the poems and musical as focal points. Activity types include the following: (1) reading, listening, and singing…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Class Activities, Collaborative Writing, Curriculum Enrichment