TEACHING WITH DRAMATIZED EXPERIENCES

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        Something dramatic is stirring or affecting or moving.If teaching is dramatic, the students get attracted,interested and affected.If they are affected and moved by what the teacher taught,the teachers will most likely leave an impact on the students.Dramatic experiences cater to student's multiple intelligences.

Dramatic experiences range from the formal plays, pageants to less formal tableau,pantomime,puppets and role- playing

• Plays-depict life, character, or culture or the combination of all three.They offer excellent opportunities to portray vividly important ideas about life.
• Pageants -are usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors.An example is the historical pageant that traces the growth of a school.
• Pantomime- is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only.It affects on the audience depends on the movements of the actors.
• Tableau- a french word which means picture. It is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background.It is often used to celebrate Independence Day, Christmas and United Nations day.

Teaching with dramatized experiences could also include the use of different kinds of puppets which can present ideas with extreme simplicity. As instructional device, the puppet show can involve the entire group of students.

The common puppets use are:

1. Shadow puppets- flat black silhouette made from light weight cardboard and shown behind the screen.
2. Rod puppets- flat cut out fingers tacked to a stick.,with one or movable parts, and operated from below the stage level by wire rods or slender sticks.
3. Hand puppets- the puppet's head is operated by the forefinger the puppeteer, the little finger and thumb being used to animate the puppet hands.
4. Glove-and-finger-puppet- make use of old gloves to which  small costumed figure are attached.
5. Marionettes- flexible, jointed puppets operated by strings or wires attached to a cross bar.

Another form of dramatized experiences is the role-playing. It is an unrehearsed, unprepared spontaneous

dramatization of a "let's pretend"situation where assigned participants are absorbed by their own roles in the situation described by the teachers.