Why Drama Club at School

That's a little inspiration from me! If you are a teacher do not hesitate to read!

You might be wondering how math, literature, history, geography, or foreign language teachers can run a drama club at school. What benefits can this bring to them in their lesson? A drama club is much more than just a club. This is a chance for student to develop creativity, self-confidence, refine the manner of speaking, work on memory better than any medicine it can do and finally have fun at school.

And you still think you can not set up a club at school?

If you are a history teacher, ask students to play the role of a famous person and present the world famous event in a different way in your classroom. Ask students to look for additional information and be different during the performance. If you are a geography teacher, ask your student to play the role of a traveler or do it yourself. Create a design in a drama club that reminds your students old era. If you are a math teacher and you think math formulas can not connect to a drama club, this is fault ! You can ask the student to play the role of a famous mathematician and imagine themselves as a Pythagoras or Euclid Alexandria. Just take the students on adventures and see how interesting your subject become for them in future.

I'm an English teacher and since 2011 I have been leading a Drama Club at school and today I have lots of different aged students here. Extracurricular activities such as Drama club gave excellent opportunities for my students to explore and discover new interests. It could benefit social and personal development and provide students with skills they’ll use both inside and outside the classroom. After Drama club my students developed confidence, communication and language skills, social awareness and creativity.

While teaching at Drama Club, I discovered different skills and amazing talents in my students that I did not know before. After discovering this talent, I tried to use these skills in the classroom as a strength of my students. For example, A student who had an amazing singing ability, I have been teaching him/her English with videos, music and also songs since that time. For a student who was a good artist, I gave him / her role-playing activities in the lesson where the student would play the role of a text character in front of the class. With Drama Club I change my teaching methods according to the characteristics of the students every day. Finally, what Drama Club has brought me is a warm and friendly relationship with my students and it taught me how to teach properly based on the characteristics of the child with different abilities.

If you have not decided to set up a drama club yet, try and the result will be more useful than you can imagine now!

Find below photos of my drama club:

Performing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Students of LEPL Named after Revaz Mumladze Zestaponi N7 Public School in 2019