2002/3 PGCE ENGLISH WITH DRAMA

ENGLISH with Drama

COURSE HANDBOOK

2002/ 2003

PROGRAMME

How Meeting Midnight.
can be used for a scheme of work embracing poetry, reading skills and the development of writing skills.

KS3 Manifold Manor: A scheme of work

Handbook
Woodchester Mansion

SCHEMES OF WORK/LESSON TRIAL

DEER PARK DRAMA STUDIO 2.15 – 5.15 PM KB

Links to Standards 3.1.2 Teaching & learning objectives
3.1.3 Selection & use of resources

A2 Progression.
A3 Developing pupils abilities in speaking and listening.
B17 Teaching speaking and listening.
B19 Assessing speaking and listening.

B23 In order to understand how to evaluate and assess their teaching and their pupils’ learning in English, trainees must be taught:
a how to monitor and assess pupils’ progress and attainment in English, including how to:
iii keep records of pupils’ progress and attainment across the English curriculum, including recording progress in the development of pupils’ skills in English;
vi judge levels of attainment against the expected demands of each relevant level description for KS3 and KS4 in English.

PROGRAMME
Keeping records
Making assessments and team teaching.
Standards at KS4.
Ensuring range and variation.

Bibliography

‘Keep Talking’, F Klippel, Cambridge

Session Twenty-four.
20th February 2003: 14.15 till 17.15
Kate Brockbank. venue to be confirmed.
KS4 Assessment of Drama.

ASSESSMENT & GCSE DRAMA

We will watch GCSE pupils work & assess their attainment against assessment objectives. We will look at pupil profiles.

ANOTHER SCHOOL (TBC) 2.15 – 5.15 PM KB

Links to Standards 3.2.3 Use of assessment criteria
3.2.7 Reporting orally & in writing

Session Twenty-five.
6th March 2003: 14.15 till 17.15
Philip Rush. Francis Close Hall.
KS4 Assessment of Reading and Writing.

A2 Progression.
B11 Assessing reading.
B16 Assessing writing.
B23 In order to understand how to evaluate and assess their teaching and their pupils’ learning in English, trainees must be taught:
a how to monitor and assess pupils’ progress and attainment in English, including how to:
iii keep records of pupils’ progress and attainment across the English curriculum, including recording progress in the development of pupils’ skills in English;
vi judge levels of attainment against the expected demands of each relevant level description for KS3 and KS4 in English.

PROGRAMME
Preparing and teaching KS4 coursework tasks.
Moderation.
National standards: trial marking and discussion.
Preparing and teaching the skills required by the examination:
the mark scheme.
Trial marking and discussion.

Bibliography

‘An Introduction to Stylistics’, Urszula Clark, STP
‘Assessment and evaluation’ in ‘The Effective Teaching of English’,
Protherough, Atkinson, Fawcett, Longman

Session Twenty-six.
13th March 2003: 14.15 till 17.15
Kate Brockbank. Cirencester Deer Park School.
Forum Theatre
and other advanced drama teaching techniques.

FORUM THEATRE & OTHER ADVANCED DRAMA TEACHING TECHNIQUES
Some of this session will be set aside for trainees focus on areas of teaching drama that they have identified a need for.

DEER PARK DRAMA STUDIO 2.15 – 5.15 PM KB

Links to Standards 3.3.3 Teaching methods

Session Twenty-seven.
20th March 2003: 14.15 till 17.15
Philip Rush. College, Francis Close Hall.
The Scheme of Work: Blood Wedding.

A3 As part of all courses, trainees must be taught that, if pupils are to make progress in English, teachers must:
a develop pupils as critical readers and extend the range of what they read, recognising::
i the responsibility of the teacher to intervene in pupils’ reading, including their independent reading, to ensure that:
• pupils’ reading competence is developed by building on and extending their current experience and interests:
• pupils experience reading which is varied and challenging, and which broadens their reading horizons, including pre-twentieth century prose, poetry and drama and text from different cultures;
ii the need for pupils to develop a sense of literary tradition, recognising the influence of social, cultural and historical factors and making links between texts.

B6 Trainees must be taught how to teach literary and non-literary texts to whole classes and groups, including how to:
a select texts, identifying the chief learning aims and how they will be met through use of a text, eg deciding which aspects of a text will be taught; selecting a particular text because it uses specific structures or techniques;
b introduce a text, eg giving excerpts from the text to whet the appetite;
c select those passages or aspects of the text which should receive close attention, and how to phase and pace the way the text will be taught, eg completing a first reading fairly rapidly so that pupils understand the nature of the text, followed by revisiting different sections in more detail;
d decide how and by whom the text will be read, eg reading aloud by the teacher to bring out the qualities of the text, followed by group reading of the same text for close study of the language; allowing individual pupils a few moments to read privately, before discussion, to form their own impressions; sharing reading in a group by taking turns and pausing for discussion;
e set up activities which will enhance pupils’ engagement with the text and improve their skills in reading, ensuring that the selection of activities is closely matched to the teaching objectives for the section of text being studied;
f enable pupils to appreciate and respond in writing and discussion to the text as a whole.

B18 Trainees must be taught how to introduce pupils to drama.

Teacher's Handbook: Blood Wedding

Session Twenty-eight.
27th March 2003: 14.15 till 17.15
Kate Brockbank. College, Francis Close Hall.
and Sessions Twenty-nine and Thirty,
3rd April 2003: 14.15 till 17.15
Kate Brockbank. Cirencester Deer Park School.
Drama Project.

In the final three drama sessions you will research, devise, rehearse and present a theatre-in-education style project to take into schools. This will draw together what you have learnt about drama as a teaching tool.

27.03.03 Drama project (1)

PLANNING THE DRAMA PROJECT
An hour spent on planning next weeks practical project

COLLEGE 2.15 – 3.15 PM KB/PR


03.04.03 Drama project (2)

THE DRAMA PROJECT
The morning will be spent planning & rehearsing. The afternoon will be spent presenting to & working with the pupils. We will then evaluate together.

DEER PARK DRAMA STUDIO 9 – 4.30 PM KB

Links to Standards 2.2 Use of elements of the programme of study for Citizenship
1.3 Promotion of positive values & attitudes

3.3.1 High expectations, purposeful learning atmosphere, value of diversity, security & confidence of pupils.
3.3.14 Equal opportunities, challenging stereotypes

27.03.03 PLANNING THE DRAMA PROJECT
An hour spent on planning next week’s practical project

COLLEGE 2.15 – 3.15 PM KB/PR



THE DRAMA PROJECT AIMS TO

• Give you the opportunity to engage together in a substantial piece of group work
• Enable you to explore in depth a citizenship theme through drama
• Give you practise in the drama techniques you have learnt over the course
• Challenge your own performance skills
• Enable you to experience the devising process


and should include

• Citizenship theme with clear learning aims
• A performance element
• Teacher in Role element
• Opportunities for pupils to participate in & out of role with some active element
• A range of drama techniques