Further develop

emotional
Intelligence

Great way to
develop language
skills

Find intrinsic
motivation

Be able to see
things in a new

PARENTS NIGHT
TOMKEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Drama in the Classroom
As a French immersion grade 7 teacher, I see the value of drama
education. The best way to learn a language is to feel comfortable
speaking it, so I always ensure my classroom makes the students
feel comfortable, their voices are always heard, and they have lots of
opportunities to speak French. Drama helps them see the world in a
new way by being able to see a situation from another perspective,
understand another person, and develop their interpersonal,
intrapersonal, and emotional intelligence.

way

Further develop
interpersonal
intelligence

TOMKEN MIDDLE
SCHOOL
3200 Tomken Rd,
Mississauga, ON
L4Y 2Y6
Questions? Feel free to
e-mail or call me
Kara-Ann_Nagel@edu.yorku.ca

226-808-2642

Presentation Talking Points

Communication most important part of French (great way to develop language skills)
Further develop emotional intelligence: to be aware of, control, and express emotions
Find intrinsic motivation (able to relate to material more by diving into it)
Be able to see things in a new way
Further develop interpersonal (understanding other people) and intrapersonal (understanding of self)
intelligence
Powerful way to teach students about the way the human world works about social justice, fairness and
empathy (Making the Space for Drama)

History
Mush Hole Project was a site-specific theatre performance about a residential school that shut down in Brantford
in 1970: students met with residential school survivors and their children to learn about the experience from them
- Learning about history through role in weeks leading up to Mush Hole Project field trip
Right now students are working on creating and presenting a title page in role to show what is important about
their time period chosen S
- What must it have been like for a person or group of persons who lived during that time, in that place, in
those conditions, under those circumstances? (Making the Space for Drama)
These examples from this past month give you a context for how I use drama with history to promote students to
find intrinsic motivation and be able to see things in a new way. It also gets them using French a lot more to
express their opinions and ideas.

Past drama class at York

Teacher not a tourist (Conquering 34)
Honoring student voice (Conquering 50)
Inclusive and equitable school environment (Teaching Fairly 25-6)
- In the future, I hope to have a larger variety of food to represent students cultures
- In the future, I hope to start a French club
- Teachers always present in hallways (greet class before enter)
- Signs/notices are multilingual
- Lots of activities for students
- Students treated with respect
- Library open after school

Question: What do you think about when you think of 21st century classroom?
Technology?
Layers
Creativity

Any questions?

Resources
Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Ontario's Schools: Covering Grades 1 to 12.
1st ed. N.p.: n.p., 2010. Print.
Lundy, Kathleen Gould. Conquering the Crowded Curriculum. Markham, Ont.: Pembroke, 2015. Print.
Lundy, Kathleen Gould. "Making the Space for Drama and Social Justice." Drama, Theatre and Performance
Education in Canada: Classroom and Community Contexts 37.3 (2015): 129-39. Web. 14 Sept. 2016.
Lundy, Kathleen Gould. Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World. Markham, Ont.: Pembroke, 2008. Print.
Lundy, Kathleen Gould. What Do I Do about the Kid Who?: 50 Ways to Turn Teaching into Learning.
Markham, Ont.: Pembroke, 2004. Print.
The Mush Hole Project. Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford. 17 Sept. 2016. Performance.