VAP 2601
ASSIGNMENT 5
2022
, Drama Teacher and his/her approach
Seen as an artificial process outside our existence, education is prone to failure.
Everything we learn must be directly connected to the world we live in. Therefore, the
priority for this process must not consist in providing information, but in providing the
proper means for both assimilating and using the given information in our daily
existence. That is why teachers have the most important role in education, since they
serve as the instrument which changes their students’ knowledge about reality. In this
respect, I consider pedagogical drama one of the most effective ways to teach our
students to deal with certain issues, such as coping with emotional or social difficulties,
developing problem-solving skills, and in self-discovery. The keyword for these modern
times is innovation--permanent and life changing. Nevertheless, the utmost concern
should be how to introduce it in our lives in order to experience progress and growth. In
fact, this is how modern education must be approached. Educators must find new ways
of teaching youngsters that: help them learn more easily and use what they have
learned in diverse real-world contexts; make them eager to discover new things every
day; do not cause students to become bored or become reluctant to tackle the material;
and encourage students to be active, involved, energetic, and to enjoy every minute of
the activities. Teachers struggle to create the perfect environment to teach, to find new
methods and techniques to create a perfect learning environment for their students. In
fact, they must recreate existence itself for their students, and must adapt it to their
students’ level of understanding. The best way to learn is to see, to hear, to feel, and to
experience, instead of simply to acquire information. Information itself becomes
perfectly useless if it cannot be applied in real life.
Learning Environment
The goal of Interactive Pedagogical Drama (IPD) is to exploit the edifying power of story
while promoting active learning. An IPD immerses the learner in an engaging, evocative
story where she interacts with realistic characters. The learner makes decisions or takes
ASSIGNMENT 5
2022
, Drama Teacher and his/her approach
Seen as an artificial process outside our existence, education is prone to failure.
Everything we learn must be directly connected to the world we live in. Therefore, the
priority for this process must not consist in providing information, but in providing the
proper means for both assimilating and using the given information in our daily
existence. That is why teachers have the most important role in education, since they
serve as the instrument which changes their students’ knowledge about reality. In this
respect, I consider pedagogical drama one of the most effective ways to teach our
students to deal with certain issues, such as coping with emotional or social difficulties,
developing problem-solving skills, and in self-discovery. The keyword for these modern
times is innovation--permanent and life changing. Nevertheless, the utmost concern
should be how to introduce it in our lives in order to experience progress and growth. In
fact, this is how modern education must be approached. Educators must find new ways
of teaching youngsters that: help them learn more easily and use what they have
learned in diverse real-world contexts; make them eager to discover new things every
day; do not cause students to become bored or become reluctant to tackle the material;
and encourage students to be active, involved, energetic, and to enjoy every minute of
the activities. Teachers struggle to create the perfect environment to teach, to find new
methods and techniques to create a perfect learning environment for their students. In
fact, they must recreate existence itself for their students, and must adapt it to their
students’ level of understanding. The best way to learn is to see, to hear, to feel, and to
experience, instead of simply to acquire information. Information itself becomes
perfectly useless if it cannot be applied in real life.
Learning Environment
The goal of Interactive Pedagogical Drama (IPD) is to exploit the edifying power of story
while promoting active learning. An IPD immerses the learner in an engaging, evocative
story where she interacts with realistic characters. The learner makes decisions or takes
