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Special Educational Needs Learning Through Drama for Children with Special Educational Needs
- Saturday 17th March 2012
- Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1
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Course Tutor: Dr Melanie Peter, Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University. This practical course explores the importance of drama for enabling all children - including those with Special Educational Needs (SEN) - to learn through imagined experience. The day is suitable for those working in inclusive mainstream primary settings and those working in special schools. |
Using role-play is key to children developing awareness and understanding of others' perspectives and how to influence the course of events. Drama also offers children, including those with SEN, the potential for meaningful and coherent learning that integrates aspects from across the curriculum towards addressing their holistic needs.
A developmental approach will be taken, for working with those children at the earliest stages of learning with severe and complex needs to inclusive groups. The course explores the conditions needed to support meaningful learning through drama, and appropriate strategies (including teacher-in-role), with consideration of implications for planning drama activity for children with SEN.
There will be an opportunity to review video footage of drama teaching, and to discuss issues for participants' professional contexts. Illustrative content will be pitched at children, but the approach includes transferable approaches to planning drama activity and consideration of issues for working with groups with more diverse needs.
THIS COURSE WILL BENEFIT YOU BY:
- Exploring a developmental approach for using drama to support social understanding in children with SEN
- Considering appropriate strategies and planning implications for working in drama with children with wide-ranging needs
- Reviewing drama as a learning medium and approach to curricular planning for children with SEN
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AT THE END OF THIS COURSE THOSE PARTICIPATING WILL BE ABLE TO:
Drama Resource is proud to present a unique opportunity to explore this vital area of children's education on Saturday 17 March 2012 at Toynbee Studios in London. Attendance Certificates and full supporting notes will also be supplied. If you have any enquiries, please email David Farmer or telephone 01603 465973 or 0797 321 7876.
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The fee for this course is £165 per delegate. There is a 10% discount for each additional colleague from the same organisation. NB Please complete and return the booking form below with your purchase order or payment. An official invoice will be dispatched and payment can be made by cheque, BACS or online using the Buy Now button below.
What to bring
Comfortable clothing to move in. Light refreshments are available and at lunchtime we will walk to Old Spitalfields Market where there are several delicious options available (lunch not included).
Toynbee Studios is part of the Toynbee Hall complex at 28 Commercial Street, London E1. Download directions to Toynbee Studios by car, tube, bus, train or bike.
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The Tutor
Dr Melanie Peter has worked in special education for over 20 years, and is currently Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University where she is in charge of teacher training for Inclusion and SEN. She is widely known for her innovative work using drama and the arts, and has published a number of books based on her research and extensive experience, including 'Developing Play & Drama in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders' (co-written with Dave Sherratt, 2002), and recent articles on-line.
She advises on drama in the curriculum at policy level, and contributes regularly on conferences and training events. A former Advisory Teacher, Melanie has expertise also in movement and dance, and is the educational consultant for CBBC's highly successful early years dance show, Boogie Beebies!
Drama Courses
Since 2005 Drama Resource has offered a range of high quality training opportunities to hundreds of teachers, teaching assistants, drama practitioners, actors and directors. Courses on drama in education explore the role of drama techniques to use across the curriculum. Courses on directing and devising theatre use exciting and creative approaches to developing group performance. All courses are highly practical and supported by course notes, enabling participants to easily adapt the approaches for their own use.
What They Said
Comments received about this course in 2009, 2010 and 2011:
- A really useful day that has given me loads of ideas. It has made me excited about teaching drama again.
- It really enabled me to appreciate how difficult some SEN pupils may find drama and how to work to overcome boundaries.
- I was amazed by the wide range of activities that can be brought to life using teacher in role.
- I found the whole day very useful and full of practical ideas. Melanie is an excellent expert!
- I thought the day was very useful for me as an NQT.
- I was very impressed with the breadth and depth of Melanie's knowledge.
- I enjoyed the day and feel full of ideas to take back to Leeds City College.
- Lots of ideas to use across the curriculum. I now have some ideas the children will love.
- Gained a lot of ideas on how to engage and control sessions.
- Thank you for a fantastic inspiring day. Loved every minute of it!
- Well presented - superb.
- An inspiring facilitator.
