Story Theatre

Theater in Education

Theater in Education (TIE) is a process in which it includes all the interactive theater/drama practices that help aid the educational process.

As TIE is used, new strategies and objectives for using theater as an educational tool emerge. It includes the interactive theater practices that helps student in their educational process (learning

What is a story theater?

The benefits:

1-Story Theater evokes imagination, putting a number of formal

pedagogical principles into play simultaneously as action proceeds.

2-language materials ought to engage the students, pique their

curiosity, and be within their range of proficiency so that they are not

bored.

3-Story Theater is especially relevant at that time when students are

tired or are about to become tired.

4-It is also useful with students who are afraid to make mistakes, or

with those who have a knowledge about the language and can

recognize words, but cannot easily produce what they can recognize.

5-The text of a story gives words to them so that they can actively use

the language. This provides security.

The main element of TIE

These are the following characteristics of TIE

• There is a clear aim and educational objective running throughout this process.

• The cast should be small so actors must be versatile and often take several roles.

• A low budget project has to be taken so that actors can play instruments too.

• The production must be portable and the design of the production will be simple and representational.

• The exploration of issues has to be from various viewpoints, so that we can see the effect of the action upon a range of people.

• There should be involvement by the audience.

• They are rarely wholly naturlistic because narration is often used.

• As actors have multiple roles, the costumes are representational
  
• and simple.

• For educating the audience facts and figures can be included.

• They may have a strong message or moral running throughout the production

TIE creates different productions:

Strategy

Read the book aloud to both older and younger students, and older students may read different stories in groups related to a single genre of story (e.g., Greek myths).

Lead discussions using reader response questions and prompts, tapping into students' personal experiences of the story. The teacher and students can then plan and play a story dramatization:

1. Re-read and discuss the story

   So that students are completely familiar with the story, the teacher can do repeated read alouds of picture books for younger students, and older students can read and discuss a story in groups. Ask students to note the setting, characters, and sequence of events or plot, as well as the most exciting parts, the climax, the way the story ended (i.e., the resolution), mood and theme, and important phrases and characteristic things characters say.

1. Make a story chart

   The teacher can record students' ideas about each of these on chart paper for younger students and to model planning a story dramatization, and older students may do this independently in groups:

Feedback:

Active learning depends on dramatization, miming, acting and playing roles among learners to change the theoretical text into alive practical learning or real life situations through using language in real situations.

  The teacher must be like an artist , a musician or a clown that has a role to perform on the stage.  The stage at school is the classroom.  The team of artists that share the teacher are the learners themselves.

  This brings life into the content, text, the vocabulary and the structure to be means of communication.  Besides, story theater addresses and involves the learners physically, mentally and environmentally.