Want to master powerful drama techniques to enrich your classroom teaching? Patrice Baldwin is an internationally acclaimed teacher and drama practitioner. In this smartscript she guides you through a range of accessible but powerful drama strategies that any primary teacher can use to enhance their classroom teaching.

Patrice offers context to these methods, describing a range of settings in which she has successfully used these approaches. She also offers ways you can use these techniques in socially distanced ways.

Patrice

choose

You should now know how to set up Talking Objects.
You can listen again or learn something else about the technique.

You will now get to choose which aspect of hot seating to learn first

When you're ready to choose which to learn first.

Conscience Alley

How to set it up

Choice Scene

how to set it up

I hope these examples of me using Talking Objects are helpful.
Would you like to listen again or learn another technique?

What would you like to learn about Conscience Alley next?

What aspect of hot seating would you like to learn next?

set it up

This should have explained when the best times to use still images are. 
You can either lsiten again, or learn another aspect to this technique.

You will now get to choose which to hear about still images first.


when should i use it?

Anecdote

when use

Are you sure you've learned enough about the Talking Objects technique?

Choosing

You can now choose which part of Performance Carousel to learn first.

Still images

Which technique would you like to explore next?

When should i use it?

I hope my own personal examples are helpful. 
You can listen to them again or move on to another aspect of the technique.

This should explain when it is best to use this technique. You can listen again or learn another aspect?

anecdote

Are you sure you want to finish the smartscript?
Make sure you've watched all the techniques you want to first!

example

You should now know how to set still images up, but there is much more to learn .
You can hear this video again or listen to another aspect of this technique.

Hot Seating

when should i use it

You should now know when you would use hot seating.
Would you like to listen again or learn a different component of hot seating?

You will now get to choose what to learn about Conscience Alley first

Now you know how to set Performance Carousel up!
You can listen again if you like or learn a new aspect of the technique.

SI when should i use it?

What aspect of Performance Carousel would you like to learn next?

Introduction

Which would you like to learn about next?

Are you sure you've finished learning about Performance Carousel?

There are five exercises I want to explore with you through this SmartScript.

First I'll introduce the technique, then you can choose to hear me explain the following:

How to set up the technique
When would you use the technique
and an example of when I have used the technique personnally

Talking objects

Are you sure you've learned everything you want to about Conscience Alley?

You can now choose what to learn about Talking Objects first.

I hoped you enjoyed my own examples of how I have used Still Images in my own practice.
You can either listen again or learn another aspect of Still Images.

This should have helped explain when to use this technique. 
You can listen again or learn a new aspect.

Thank you so much for joining me for this interactive digital lesson.

I hope it was useful, if you would like to read any of my writing you can find a list of my publications at https://www.patricebaldwin.net/books/
Getting Started with ‘Drama for Learning’ – The Basics
Drama for Oracy
Drama for Learning across the Primary Curriculum
Talk and Drama for Writing
Learning through Drama in Storyland
Using Drama Strategies with Picture Books
Learning through Drama in Primary History
Using Drama against Bullying

To arrange a live, online Drama CPD session with Patrice, please contact me directly.
 

 
Email:  patrice@patricebaldwin.com 
Mobile: +44 (0)782 5776898
Website: www.patricebaldwin.com
Drama Blog: www.patricebaldwin.me

Thank you so much again. Please do keep an eye out for future workshops I will be releasing on the Prospero Library.

finishing

Performance Carousel

You should now know how to set hot seating up. 
What would you like to do next?

Are you sure you're finished learning about hotseating?

Are you sure you've learned everything about still images you want to?

What would you like to learn about Talking Objects next?

Selection

This should have explained when you might use the Performance Carousel technique. 
You can listen again or progress.

Now you know how to set up Conscience Alley. You can either listen one more time or move on?

These examples should help contextualise using Conscience Alley as a technique. 
Would you like to hear these examples again or move on?

I hope my own examples of using hot seating are useful.
Would you like to hear them again or explore another part of hot seating?

Patrice Baldwin's Drama Strategies for the Classroom