Sunday, 10 November 2013

Theatre In Education 1.1

TIE started back in 1965 at the Belgrade Theatre, Theatre-in-Education (TiE) in short is a programme creates a performance supported with audience participation, often in the form of interactive workshops. These are facilitated by the performers and teachers from the school using a variety of techniques. It's usually less concerned with imparting factual knowledge and more concerned with exploring sensitive issues. The programmes are mostly supported by teaching materials designed to encourage further work by teachers and young people following the TIE visit (teachers pack)
In my opinion this is the best way to do TIE, It is a performance technique with stop and start action. The play is performed once without interruption, with the characters facing a number of dilemmas and choices. The pupils are encouraged to step into the characters shoes and think about how they might handle things differently. Scenes from the play are repeated and the young people are invited to stop the action and intervene. The reason I believe that it is the best way because it’s not only entertaining the students through the use of role play but it is educating them through others experiences.
An example of a theatre in education is, Bigfoot, The company began in 2000 and  started out as a very small drama workshop company working in a few schools. Now they are one of the UK's largest independent arts education companies providing performing arts and creative arts based learning to hundreds of schools across the country. There specialties are to provide workshops and courses helping over “35,000” pupils a week in The “Primary and Secondary learning environments”.  They don’t just do theare either they do all forms of arts including film making, dancing, painting and yoga!!

Big foots aims are to:

·         Help children discover there talents and abilities at a young age ‘the sooner, the better.’
·         They want Children to be given ‘space to freely express themselves without the fear of judgement.’

And they believe ‘The best learning results are achieved by making learning seriously fun and play-full.’

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