Siham was a student in 4th grade classroom. She was a leading member in the class who used to bully all the children and make fun of them. She has received positive praise from the class when she used to bully other children. She couldn’t join the group work successfully so she would take over the group to regain her confidence. To help students and help Siham overcome this behavior, the teacher has introduced drama in order to explore acceptance and exclusions and the image of bullies and victims in this classroom. When the drama started, Siham was working with two other boys and two girls. She was sharing her ideas and developing group work and not dominating the work. The image that was created has pictured Siham as a victim of bullying. She was thrown on the floor and crying massively begging for mercy. Siham was playing the role of a victim and has mastered the bad consequences that the bullied children fall into. Siham is now more sympathetic and showed an improvement of behavior with her peers. (Dickinson & Neeland, n.d.). Drama has successfully provided social learning in mixed ability setting for all pupils. It can heal the society and can improve the behavior of bad behaviors through putting them in the shoes of others. Drama has numerous advantages on pupils because it can heal the society and implant games to the learning objective.
We are facing massive problems in our society due to the hatred that is spread everywhere nowadays. Citizens lack the skills they need to interact with others so they fight all the time. For that, teachers should implement drama in the classroom that research proved can teach students social values that they need to live peacefully in class and later on in the society. We can all agree to disagree but we need to know how to disagree in a peaceful way. Drama can help you teach these skills! As new teachers, let us all try these new techniques in our classrooms. Let us teach empathy and acceptance through drama! Society will develop when citizens love and accept each other.
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I really enjoyed reading this post. It was such a great idea how they allowed Siham to experience what she was imposing on others. This opened up Siham's eyes to see the harm she was causing others and make her bullying stop. This can totally be applied in our classrooms.
ReplyDeleteThis post discusses a real and serious problem that we face in our schools nowadays all over the world. I believe that all schools all over the world she do some real quick act to open the students eyes on bullying and the harm that it causes in others. I liked how Siham understood the situation of bullying through an act play.
ReplyDeleteSchools should really take this topic seriously.