Workshop With the Drama Teacher

In the last two Wednesdays we were working with a drama teacher. The drama teacher told us that there are some important aspects that we as future teachers need to take control of. These aspects are about how to treat with children and people in general.

This activity was really funny. My classmates and I had a really good time doing all the things that the drama teacher told us to do.

Those activities had a purpose. For example: One of them had the purpose of showing that we had to give the best of us without the fear of looking ridiculous. If we are going to work with children we have to be like a child. We have to do all the things that they do. Why do we have to do that? We have to do that because in that way we can create an environment that is cool for children. They will feel comfortable with us and they will learn better because children identify themselves with the teacher.

  

Also the drama teacher told us that we have to project our voices, we have transmit confidence through our voice. We need to have a good attitude any time because in that way people will feel good with us. People will see something in us, and maybe that something will inspire them to learn or to give their best while learning.

Also we identify some toggles that we have when we are speaking in front of people. All of us have some aspects that we need to improve. And the drama teacher helped us to do it. In the second wednesday I could not attend to the activity, but my classmates were practicing about focus in things but they had to perceive what was happening around them.

There is another thing that I would like to mention and it is that the drama teacher gave us some advices about walking around the classroom. We do not have to let any space without passing there because we need to know our environment. We need to be in contact with our children. We need to transmit our desires of teaching because children feel that.
All the things that I practiced and I learnt in this workshop will be useful not only in the future, but they will be useful right now for me. We are learning and we have to put in practice what we learnt in order to get better results in our daily life.