After viewing the website I found that the Inspiration software has multiple tools that could help me in the classroom. As a theatre teacher, I am always looking for fun ways for the students to learn and process the information of a lesson. In theatre we take a play and basically break it down completely and to have an organized chart or diagram would be ideal. There is so much information to process when going through a play that these diagrams will help the students organize their thoughts and study material.
After reading chapters four and five in the textbook I am excited to use writing, oral presentations , and research in my classroom. I think these options are the best for a theatre classroom. The students can read a play and write about the message they got out of it or what it means to them. Oral presentations are an obvious choice for a theatre classroom, given that speaking in front of others is a huge part of theatre. Research can be used as a helpful tool when students are needing to find information on characters and time periods and things of that nature. Having the students help each other on assignments is really important in a theatre classroom because theatre is such a group effort. A play can not be put on by one person only. Having students help eachother brainstorm and help put thoughts together will be a successful tool in the classroom. I remember when I taught my first theatre lesson, I went into it thinking I knew exactly how it would go but by the end I had completely changed my thoughts on how to teach it. Afterwards I don't think I knew more about the subject as much as I knew more about how the students would react to the subject.
In conclusion, the website and textbook helped motivate me to think about different ways to help my students process the information I will be teaching them. I am excited to use these tools in teh classroom!
Elizabeth what you said is true about having a new learning tool like inspiration. It will be a new tool to assist with learning. A theater teacher like yourself could use this to help students to become more familiar with a play for instance. Very good post.
ReplyDeleteI think these tools could be very helpful in the classroom, especially for you since your going to be teaching theater. Also, I think students working together is beneficial to learning as well.
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