Drama/Social Skills
The Drama Social Skills programs are age based programs use theatrical education as a means to support and develop social learning and confidence. These specially designed small group workshops use drama and self control games, role play, performance and supported play writing to empower students, build confidence, develop emotional awareness and social skills, as well as increase social problem solving strategies.
TESTIMONIAL
"Our Dramazing groups have been sensational! Danny has such skill and expertise to ensure all children are gaining valuable skills to enhance their social learning and confidence. Action, fun and a wide variety of activities all provide an excellent platform for the children to be fully engaged and gain so much from each session. Danny's depth of knowledge and genuine desire to reach each child's needs ensures their feeling of success and enjoyment. Families are delighted with the program with obvious growth in each child's progress noted at home as well.
Classroom teachers love Danny's input into how her program can be included into the daily routine so children are seeing their successes relative to their classroom progress as well.We could not be happier with the program and highly recommend it to all those interested in developing social learning and confidence within their children. "
-Tanya Cooke, Menzies Creek Primary School Principal
How The Drama Social Skill Program Runs In Schools
The Drama Social Skill program is run in much the same way as any outsourced specialist program such as a music program. The school is required to provide little more than a regular space for the classes and will receive the benefits of offering the school community a valuable opportunity to develop social skills. The classes can be run during school hours or as an after school activity group.
Classes are divided into prep-2 group and a grade 3-6 group and, if they are run during school hours, can be run on a rotating timetable so as to avoid the same timetable clashes.
Maximum class sizes are 15 students.
Over a year students will:
-engage in physical, creative, and team based theatrical games.
-learn to display and interpret emotion and expression using voice and physical signals.
-be a part of creating and exploring playwriting, contributing their ideas to the team production.
-develop, explore, personalise and present characters.
-learn lines and stage cues to be a full and active member of a group production.
Program Benefits For The Student
Social Skills: students enjoy interacting and conversing with teacher and other children while developing confidence to try new things and speak in front of others. By exploring characters and putting themselves in someone else's shoes, students develop their sense of empathy, assisting them in social interaction throughout life.
Emotional Skills: Students explore, replicate and discuss appropriate emotional reactions to specific situations, and learn to read the facial expressions of others to illustrate their emotions, further enhancing their intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional understandings.
Literacy Skills: students develop skills in character and setting identification, retelling a story, identifying problem/solution and morals in a story, predicting outcomes, making inferences and sequencing, expressive reading skills, and developing play writing skills.
Language Skills: students are given opportunities to use language effectively; to speak in complete sentences; to share information, and to increase vocabulary. They also learn to use expressive language, and voice projection to convey specific emotion.
Cognitive Skills: develops attention span and listening skills; following multi-step directions; concentration of tasks from beginning to end. Dramatic games increase student's ability to think quickly and explore multiple alternatives to problem solving.
Program Benefits For The School
With such a packed curriculum it can be difficult for teachers to find time to explicitly teach essential social skills within the classroom, or reinforce those skills for students who may require additional assistance. That is why this Dramazing Kids program is valued highly by schools and families alike, taking pressure from the classroom teacher while helping to create a more positive school culture.
The program has been designed with an additional feature for teachers and families wishing to personalise the learning and support each student in achieving personal social goals.
The program coordinator will work with the classroom teacher to create social learning goals which will be taught during the drama sessions through role play and story (e.g conflict resolution, inclusivity, sportsmanship), and supported and encouraged by the classroom teacher and class by means of a specific goal chart in which positive social behaviour is recognised and recorded by the class and teacher. The child is viewed as a 'demonstrator' of the skill. When the student displays positive learned behaviours in a real world setting, and is praised and rewarded, the experience is more likely to be repeated, and with repetition, positive habits are formed. Other students in the class soon begin to look for the positives in others rather than always observing negatives, and it can have a domino effect for the class and school even school social culture.
How Much Does The Program Cost?
Each hour long session costs $20 per child and is billed termly.
Families also receive a complimentary copies of videos showing the learning journey of the program movie productions.
The Drama Social Skill program is run in much the same way as any outsourced specialist program such as a music program. The school is required to provide little more than a regular space for the classes and will receive the benefits of offering the school community a valuable opportunity to develop social skills. The classes can be run during school hours or as an after school activity group.
Classes are divided into prep-2 group and a grade 3-6 group and, if they are run during school hours, can be run on a rotating timetable so as to avoid the same timetable clashes.
Maximum class sizes are 15 students.
Over a year students will:
-engage in physical, creative, and team based theatrical games.
-learn to display and interpret emotion and expression using voice and physical signals.
-be a part of creating and exploring playwriting, contributing their ideas to the team production.
-develop, explore, personalise and present characters.
-learn lines and stage cues to be a full and active member of a group production.
Program Benefits For The Student
Social Skills: students enjoy interacting and conversing with teacher and other children while developing confidence to try new things and speak in front of others. By exploring characters and putting themselves in someone else's shoes, students develop their sense of empathy, assisting them in social interaction throughout life.
Emotional Skills: Students explore, replicate and discuss appropriate emotional reactions to specific situations, and learn to read the facial expressions of others to illustrate their emotions, further enhancing their intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional understandings.
Literacy Skills: students develop skills in character and setting identification, retelling a story, identifying problem/solution and morals in a story, predicting outcomes, making inferences and sequencing, expressive reading skills, and developing play writing skills.
Language Skills: students are given opportunities to use language effectively; to speak in complete sentences; to share information, and to increase vocabulary. They also learn to use expressive language, and voice projection to convey specific emotion.
Cognitive Skills: develops attention span and listening skills; following multi-step directions; concentration of tasks from beginning to end. Dramatic games increase student's ability to think quickly and explore multiple alternatives to problem solving.
Program Benefits For The School
With such a packed curriculum it can be difficult for teachers to find time to explicitly teach essential social skills within the classroom, or reinforce those skills for students who may require additional assistance. That is why this Dramazing Kids program is valued highly by schools and families alike, taking pressure from the classroom teacher while helping to create a more positive school culture.
The program has been designed with an additional feature for teachers and families wishing to personalise the learning and support each student in achieving personal social goals.
The program coordinator will work with the classroom teacher to create social learning goals which will be taught during the drama sessions through role play and story (e.g conflict resolution, inclusivity, sportsmanship), and supported and encouraged by the classroom teacher and class by means of a specific goal chart in which positive social behaviour is recognised and recorded by the class and teacher. The child is viewed as a 'demonstrator' of the skill. When the student displays positive learned behaviours in a real world setting, and is praised and rewarded, the experience is more likely to be repeated, and with repetition, positive habits are formed. Other students in the class soon begin to look for the positives in others rather than always observing negatives, and it can have a domino effect for the class and school even school social culture.
How Much Does The Program Cost?
Each hour long session costs $20 per child and is billed termly.
Families also receive a complimentary copies of videos showing the learning journey of the program movie productions.