Article #9: What do these dramatic experiences include? How can they be used for effective teaching?

• Dramatized experiences can range from the formal plays, pageants to less formal tableau, pantomime, puppets and role playing. Play depicts life, character, or culture or a combination of all three. Pageants are usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors. Tableau is a picture like scene composed of people against a background. Pantomime is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only. Puppets can present ideas wit extreme simplicity - without elaborate scenery or costume - yet effective. Role-playing is an unrehearsed, unprepared and spontaneous dramatization of a let's pretend situation where assigned participants are absorbed by their own roles in the situation described by the teachers.
• As instructional device, dramatic experiences can involve the entire group of students as speakers, actors, manipulators of figures and makers of script or puppets. When our teaching is dramatic students gets attracted and interested and affected. We will most likely to leave an impact to them once students are affected.