Teaching and Learning by Dramatisation

Dramatisation has being described as synthetic art which involving the purposive coordination and control of the delicate organs of speech and muscles of the body. When combined with a sense of rhythm with the view to free and a sense of intelligence ,expression of emotions and ideas.
Pupils who involve in learning through dramatisation can improve on their speech ,habits and language's communicative skills in general.
Gwarinda(1993:73)says dramatisation is the method of teaching approach whereby pupils are made to acquire concepts through acting out a particular situation.For example the popular biblical story of a prodigal son can be used in the child book child approach.
Dramatics add to the geographical knowledge of areas to pupils and in other areas of specialisation like in capentry and other mechanical arts which facilitates the work of construction of the stages.
Drama has great social value on its nature of being cooperative enterprise and develops qualities of cooperation and social understanding. Dance and music can also made to the beauty of the drama.
As dramatics facilitates to foster the spirit of cooperation among actors. It also folds many opportunities for training in a teamwork and provides freedom for release of inhibitions to which there are subjected by the conventions of the society.
There are many activities done in a drama and as such children of diverse aptitudes can get chances to choose items from which they are best suited and certisfy their ages or desires, for instance self expression through various activities of the drama.
TYPES OF DRAMA
(1)Dramatic play: This is done by very young children ,for example the little boy zopming around saying I am an earoplane. The little girl being a mother to a doll.
(2)Impromptu dramatisation:Primary school children in lower grades can enjoy this . If a teacher give the a bible story immediately they want to dramatise it.They can use their own words and actions.
(3)Miming in this form of acting the actor speaks no words but communicate in thoughts and actions through movement of the body parts like use of gestures and facial expressions. It is more convenient to children found learning the parts by heart difficult because they can be told by the narrator and the other actors what they have to do is to act out the story in mime. Furthermore for it to be really effective the actions and gestures have to be greatly exagerated.
(4)Acting as a form of dramatisation there should be the combination of movement acting by miming with the inclusion of the dialogue. However some primary school children may have difficuties in learning scripted parts and speak them dramatically.
From all the different types of the dramatisation mentioned above the teacher should discuss the story with the children and assist them on how to act on different parts.Giving comments on the dramatised script is easy,but the planning and organisation of actors demands knowledge and a lot of work . When continue trying you shall comeup with the best drama which shall help you in your teaching profession.