Teaching talking

Description

Getting pupils to engage and participate in group and class discussions in the secondary English classroom is a difficult and often undervalued teaching skill. Drama offers obvious opportunities, but Teaching Talking 1 shows that it's not just set-piece performances that can help. A Year 7 class at Swanlea School in East London have been collaborating to devise unscripted pieces as missing scenes from a stage version of The Demon Headmaster. Their teacher, Sangeeta Sharma, helps them to work logically and methodically to agree criteria for a good performance before they finish preparing their pieces. The class then use these same criteria to reflect on and evaluate their own and each other's performances and a vote for best piece.Sangeeta is a recent PGCE graduate and the lesson is observed by John Yandell, one of her former tutors at the Institute of Education. Together they watch a video recording of the lesson and discuss key moments, opportunities and issues.

Runtime

28 min

Series

Subjects

Geography

Genre

Date of Publication

2005

Database

Alexander Street

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