Options

Option 1

Using Drama to Enhance Teaching tuition only

You can choose to add English tuition to your course

Option 2

Language then Using Drama to Enhance Teaching

Choose one week of English tuition only (20 hours), followed by one week of Using Drama to Enhance Teaching (20 hours). 

Breakdown

Topics

Using Drama to Enhance Teaching

• Introduction to Using Drama; Forum and Image Theatre
• Using improvisation in the classroom
• Devising a show for a drama class
• Working with Text
• Working with Voice
• Workshop: Presentations

Intensive English

• Receptive and productive skills
• Practice emphasising speaking and listening skills
• Communicating effectively and flexibly through English in the real-world

Competences

• Linguistic: Grammatical, lexical and phonological
• Strategic: Interaction, compensation and repair
• Pragmatic: Functional language and discourse management

Fluency Development

Asking for and giving information and opinions, expressing a point of view, persuading, agreeing and disagreeing

Objectives & Outcomes

Learning objectives

• To develop and consolidate participants’ own language skills
• To familiarise participants with key strategies for using drama in the classroom for students aged 10+
• To help develop participants’ skills in the use of improvisation in the classroom
• To develop participants’ awareness of tools such as image theatre and use of texts
• To help develop participants devise, develop and present a show for their own class
• To improve participants’ confidence in their own lesson delivery
• To provide an opportunity to develop/consolidate participants own language skills
• To establish contacts between teachers from a variety of European backgrounds and facilitate future networking among these professionals

Course outcomes

• Enhancement of personal English Language skills  

• Increased confidence in introducing drama into the classroom across a range of curriculum subjects 

• Greater understanding of students’ needs; improved learner outcomes  

• Greater awareness of participants’ awareness of tools such as image theatre and the use of texts  

• Increased confidence to help develop participants’ devise, develop and present a show for their own class 

• Sharing of experience and knowledge with professionals from a range of European countries 

• Knowledge of Erasmus+ potential for professional development  

Sample Timetable

Timetables will vary depending on the course option. Below is a sample timetable of the two-week Language then Using Drama to Enhance Teaching

Week 1

Weekend

Informal learning; Self-guided research and cultural visits with guidelines from Twin English Centre, Dublin.

Week 2