Devising for Secondary Teachers
This course is an excellent opportunity for you to develop high-level skills in making performance works, engaging in creative practices and exploring dramatic contexts for secondary students. You will gain practical insight, knowledge and skills applicable to a wide range of school contexts and you will be equipped with teaching strategies and program scaffolds to take back to the classroom.
This course is suitable for teachers and support staff and is open to teachers from both government and non-government schools.
About the workshop
This course is an excellent opportunity for you to develop high-level skills in making performance works, engaging in creative practices and exploring dramatic contexts for secondary students. You will gain practical insight, knowledge and skills applicable to a wide range of school contexts and you will be equipped with teaching strategies and program scaffolds to take back to the classroom.
This workshop MyPL code NRG04991 addresses the following National Teaching Standards: 1.3.2, 2.1.2, 6.3.2 to maintain accreditation at Proficient. By attending this workshop, you will receive 6 hours of teacher identified professional learning. Please enrol in the course on MyPL to add your hours added to your professional learning diary.
Sessions will focus on:
- engaging students through movement, music, and drama
- creating performances from a range of stimulus material
- managing collaborative learning experiences and group work
- using non-verbal communication focusing on empowering and teaching students through performance, movement, and gesture
- using student experiences to create devised documentary drama performances.
This course is suitable for teachers and support staff and is open to teachers from both government and non-government schools.
Dates: Term 2 Week 4, Tuesday 21 May
Times: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Venue: Bankstown Arts Centre
Applications close Friday 3 May. Apply now.
Cost
- $150 per participating teacher – government schools
- $250 per participating teacher – non government schools
One teacher free for every participating government school in the Multicultural Playwright Program.
Enquiries
Workshop schedule
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Welcome and registration |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Session 1 Introductions and icebreakers – Tutor: Kate Worsley |
| 9:30 am – 10:00 am | Session 2 Warm ups |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | Session 3 The Elements of Drama |
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15 am – 11:45 am | Session 3 – continued The Elements of Drama – part 2 |
| 11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Session 4 Generating material using personal stories. Free-writing, photographs, narration, physical storytelling, character and comedy |
| 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Session 5 Devising and performance – How can we weave our material together and enhance it with the elements of drama. |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Questions, reflections and examples of devised work Time for questions and reflections on the day. |
Meet the tutor
Kate Worsley
A graduate of Theatre Nepean, Kate Worsley is an actor, voice artist and teaching artist.
A founding ensemble member of Clockfire Theatre Company, Kate has also worked on productions with Q Theatre, Monkey Baa, Sydney Theatre Company, Siren Theatre Company, Darlinghurst Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta.
As a theatre-maker, Kate has developed and facilitated a number of youth and education productions including SUBURBIST (PYT), The Letters Project (Riverside Education), Lend Me Your Ears (ATYP) and In This Fairfield: Romeo and Juliet In The West (PYT).
Kate is also a voice-artist, most recently voicing campaigns for Big W, Suncorp and Fantastic Furniture. She has featured in numerous television commercials, as well as roles in BUMP, Doctor Doctor and short film Y2GAY for which she was awarded Best Female Actor at Tropfest 2011.
She is a teaching artist with Sydney Theatre Company’s School Drama and Connected programs and the Arts Unit. A professional adult EALD (English as an Acquired Language or Dialect) teacher, Kate’s teaching work often focuses on the intersection of drama and English language pedagogy.
Kate is based in Western Sydney and is passionate about the availability and accessibility of drama programs for young people across the region. She is a proud member of MEAA equity.
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