COD 2015 - G799

Teaching Shakespeare through Performance

Drama, Literature and Language teachers interested in an alternative way of teaching Shakespeare

1 sessions, start: 08-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Ailen Geraghty
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 200.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 June 2015 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Ailen Geraghty

Ailen Geraghty is a graduate English teacher from I.E.S Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, where she has done her specialisation in the Literature Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism". She is currently doing her Master in Foreign Language Literatures and Comparative Literatures in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA. She has worked in the teaching of English at primary and secondary school levels.
Drama, Literature and Language teachers interested in an alternative way of teaching Shakespeare
• Teach Shakespeare in innovative and creative ways.
• Set the pace and challenge of learning across the ability and age range.
• Manage student behaviour and relationships.
• Use advanced teaching skills in questioning, group work and develop personal, learning and thinking skills.
• Encourage students to make their own informed interpretive choices.
• Analysis of practices based on the rehearsal room approaches of actors and directors at the RSC.
• Presentation and discussion of the key skills, knowledge and understanding needed to successfully apply active approaches in the Shakespeare classroom.
• Resources and task sheets from the Royal Shakespeare Company and University of Warwick toolkit.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to build an ensemble classroom, analysis of a range of rehearsal room approaches that can create an effective climate for active and collaborative learning in the classroom.
2) Analysis of model lessons to identify a range of story-telling strategies that can deepen students' understanding of, and engagement with, plot and caracter.
3) Presentation and discussion of drama techniques and transferable approaches to the active teaching of Shakespeare's plays.
4) Discussion on how to use these resources in the classroom.
Online course "Teaching Shakespeare" by the Royal Shakespeare Company and University of Warwick.
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