Center Stage Youth Theatre

Our Creative Drama class has taught me so many things about the teaching/learning relationship that I hardly know where to begin.  I have learned that planning is the absolute bottom line in success with students.  I have learned that the focus of the lesson must be clear, that what I am trying to teach the children must be the place that all elements of the lesson return to or it is not going to be a cohesive experience for them.  I have learned that it is not necessary to work from a script or write a script to work from in order to create a meaningful experience for students.

I now have the concept embroidered on my soul that we teach two things to children when we use drama:  About being human and about drama itself. That one of the reasons teaching through creative drama works so well is that it is always about being human.  Even if our work is about a family of rocks, the rocks will be endowed with human traits and this will facilitate the knowledge we are trying to impart to the students becoming part of them.

Through the discussions and in our reading I have had my eyes opened up to so many new ways of approaching and offering content to children.  I feel the knowledge with which I entered the program is now embellished with truly focused, responsible teaching skills.

There has always felt to me like I had some intrinsic knowledge when it came to working with and teaching children.  But I have always thought to myself that it felt like there were links missing in my own knowledge base.  I know that I must still strive to think more and more outside of the box I have been operating from these last years in my work with children, but I feel that that all I have gained in this class has launched me, catapulted me straight out into that journey.

I am very grateful.

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