Importance Of Drama ( and Joining Theater Troops)

 

Drama helps concentration

In every session children are encouraged to listen to each other's ideas and thoughts and to take turns. These activities allow children to recognise the value of concentration; a skill that is vital in the world outside their home.

Drama helps develop language & communication skills

Learning new songs, playing new games and participating in pretend play (when children must take on the language of the role they are playing) all contribute to a child's developing vocabulary. They are encouraged to express themselves both verbally and through facial expressions and body language which is key to making them better and more effective communicators.

Other Issues To Learn

Creative drama is a teaching method which can be used in many fields (Fulford et. al., 2001). Today, one of the methods of learning-teaching and practise that starts from the unity of human and that aims simultaneously to improve the needs to know (wisdom), to hear (conscience and aesthetics) and to act (motion), which are common abilities of human, is “drama in education” (Akar Vural and Sommers, 2011; p. 1). Creative drama offers many opportunity for children for example, thinking, cooperatively, commınication, awareness, self-confidence.

Due to the contemporary approaches in education, creative drama method has been used to enable the person to be active, to learn by realizing, makes him a productive and creative person and also it helps the person to improve healthy social communication skills (Kaf, 1999:2). Creative thinking method plays a prominent role in mathematics learning process. Because, students is at the learning center. Student centered instruction should be taken into consideration to provide conceptual understanding.
The fundamental objectives of the fields of drama and creative drama in education are to improve the fields of affective and psychomotor behaviours (Adıgüzel, 2013; p. 53). The creative drama has been used in education to serve multiple dimension of it: the students “arts education, the students social and emotional development, the support of the teaching of other cognitive subjects like language, history, mathematics, etc” (Fleming et all., 2004). Creative drama has an important place in the education of students (Jindal-Sanpe et. al., 2011).The students learn from what they are doing in creative drama. They are so active with creative activities. Creative drama is supported learning in the creative classrooms. Because, students learn new information, abilities, attitudes, experiences. During the creative drama activities, information should be analyzed, evaluated and interpreted by them.
Educational studies of drama is gradually gaining wide currency as a teaching method in each step of formal training, mass education and during the lessons (San, 1991). During creative drama lessons, students show positive attitude and concern. Creative drama is an activity that is improved by games in the course of education and thanks to its this property, it is the vital part of education (Üstündağ, 1994; quoted by Üstündağ, 2009; p. 25). Its use as a method in educational programs in recent years attract attention (Üstündağ, 2009). Creative drama is state of actions, extemporisations and animations which the participants produce by relying on their own creative inventions, genuine thoughts and knowledge (San, 1998).
Creative drama offers children the chance to explore themselves through the lives of fictional “others” in a safe space that enables mistakes to be made and learned from (Jindal-Sanpe et. al., 2011). Creative drama provide collaborative learning and learning by discover. Therefore, mathematics and creative drama is learned through exploring.