Hey Cher (and Jodi),
Is Readers Theater spelled Theatre or Theater?
And....
Could you let me in on some good "Up and Moving Activities" for high school students in a small space (a little room at the front of the classroom, with a small parcel to the west-ha)?
Also, I'll put on here the question that Mark raised: Do 11th and 12th graders need to move in the classroom?
they'll like your class better if they do
ReplyDeleteI'd say everyone, of all ages and backgrounds, benefit greatly from movement within a learning environment. Like we've been discussing the past couple of days, learning is a process. It's about movement. It's not stagnant. It's not unchangeable. Back to our water analogy: Stagnant waters are only going to produce disease; there is life in flowing waters.
ReplyDeleteAhhhhh- which came first......
ReplyDeleteTo google it you can use either and you could use the apostrophe or not :)
Many times I have kids simply stand up and push in their chairs. They don't need a stage, just a small parcel to the west :)
I think the answer to Mark's question is a resounding YES! But I'll let his research give the final answer.
I keep urging my freshmen students to take a theater class (Process Drama is great for those who think they have stage fright)so that they can bring movement into their day. While this is a good thing to promote elective classes in the arts, I also see now, thanks to Cher, that it is also a bit of dodging my responsibility to get kids moving in MY class. I need to create a page in my notebook for the strategies I am going to start implementing on the first day of the rest of my classroom life. MOVEMENT will be at the top in capital letters. Thank you, Cher, and also Jodi, who addressed this in her lesson, too.
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