DEVELOPMENTAL DRAMA by HELEN O’ GRADY INTERNATIONAL

Developmental drama is an improvisational, non-exhibitional, process-oriented form of drama, where participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on experiences real and imagined.

Developmental drama takes children’s natural world, creative play, and develops it further, using theatre techniques, to create learning experiences which are for the participants.

Program Objectives

Developmental drama activities offer an opportunity for children to:

Expand self-awareness

Nurture imagination

Think independently

Work cooperatively

Improve communication skills

Develop Language skills

Express a healthy release of emotions

Build social awareness

Children develop important complex social and higher order thinking

Through dramatic play, children learn to do things like negotiate, consider others’ perspectives, transfer knowledge from one situation to another, delay gratification, balance their own ideas with others, develop a plan and act on it, express and listen to thoughts and ideas, assign tasks and roles, and create different information and ideas.

Program Content

Helen O’ Grady’s Developmental drama programme includes dramatic play, story enactment, imagination journeys, creative movements, speech and voice exercises, Expression exercises, Poetry recitation, paired activities called snippets, group activities, theatre/drama games, mime, music and many more high energy , fun filled learning activities.

Curriculum

The lesson plans are designed in United Kingdom by an international research team comprising of educators from across the world

Trainers

Programme conducted by Trainers who are extensively trained in the globally acclaimed Helen O’ Grady methodology of Developmental Drama