The purpose of this study was to investigate how Teachers¡¦ Drama Workshop established by elementary school teachers, and the systematic and consistent seminars helped increase teachers¡¦ specialty in drama teaching. The feedback to the workshop would be later examined to pass down plans and to develop suitable creative drama curriculum for elementary school. The research outcomes could serve as future reference to drama teaching in performing art. The focus of this study was on how the members in a teachers¡¦ specialized group cooperated, shared and interacted, and on the effectiveness of promoting specialty.
This author used action research for investigation, starting from meeting the needs of the subjects involved, holding conversations, finding and solving problems. The conclusions were as follows.
1.Difficulties in promoting performing art curriculum in elementary school included the shortage of teachers, the ineffectiveness of seminars and teachers¡¦ lack of specialized knowledge.
2.The key to improve performing art curriculum and teaching was a systematic teacher training program.
3.Teachers¡¦ specialized groups helped teachers promoting the specialty, and shared and enriched their knowledge.
4.The feedback program helped teachers solving problems, and learned by teaching.
5.Teachers paid more attention on teaching goals when teaching drama.
6.As curricular designs differed in advantages, different designs should be well combined to make good use of all the advantages.
7.Creative drama curriculum in elementary school should include body exploring, sound and facial expression, puppets and masks, improvisation, storytelling, storytelling theater, drama appreciation, drama creation, exhibition and show.
8.There should be more than eight creative drama lessons in a semester and twenty lessons in a school year.
9.The content of creative drama teaching should be altered in proportion as the cognitive development of students changed. To succeed was to inspire students and cultivate their abilities year by year.
10.Designing and developing the Creative drama teaching lessons should experenced some stages, from brewing/preparation, development, integration to realization. During the process, some steps were also crucial, such as analyzing, discussing, designing, practicing, examining and correcting.
The researcher offered the following suggestions.
1.The most important mission so far was teacher training.
2.Teachers should join more related seminars to increase their specialized knowledge in creative drama.
3.Creative drama curriculum should be promoted in elementary school to encourage open and multi learning and to help students develop fine personalities.
4.Curriculum should be put into practice step by step, and students¡¦ changes would thus be clearly traced.
5.Teachers should be encouraged to establish specialty groups of performing art, to form unions for strategy exchange so as to share and enrich their knowledge.
This author also offered five points to ponder, hoping these research outcomes would be helpful reference for upgrading performing art teaching and enriching students¡¦ learning experience.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0905107-123851 |
| Date | 05 September 2007 |
| Creators | Kuo, Hsing-mei |
| Contributors | Chang Hsiao Hua, Cheng Ying Ywe, Chen Yi Heng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0905107-123851 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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