"Did you watch Immortal last night?" "What's the latest about the Kimeral break-up?" You may have heard your friends of neighbors talk about teleseryes and showbiz news. The former are drama series shown on TV and the latter are real life drama of famous actors and actresses. Evidenced by the people talking about these things, the drama on TV and about actors interest them because it affects them and are moved by the drama. If you use drama in teaching, do you think it will have the same effect on our students?
Something dramatic is something that is stirring or affecting or moving. It has an emotional impact. This can be used in teaching to get our students attracted, interested and affected. If they are affected and moved, the lesson would most likely leave an impact on them and have better retention of what the lesson was about.
Examples of dramatized experience are plays, pageants, tableau, pantomime, puppets and role-playing. The last four are simple and practical. Plays and pageants require longer preparations, costly props and frequent practice.
The most commonly used dramatic experience in the classroom is role-playing. It is less time-consuming and it enhances the students' multiple intelligences. An example is dividing the class into groups. Assign each group to prepare a presentation of what goes on during a job interview of different kinds of jobs. Group discussion enhances their interpersonal intelligence in the planning stage. Performing the roles they are asked to play in enhances their kinesthetic intelligence. If a musical score is used to accompany the performance, musical intelligence is at work.
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