By: Melanie Jimenez
Entitled
“Integrating Drama in the K- to 12 Classroom” this seminar aims to inculcate to
the future educators the importance of versatility and creativity inside the
classroom.
“[Versatility
and creativity] that’s the kind of expertise our government officials,
especially CHED and DEPED would like to develop among the future teacher
educators, that you are all imaginative, that you are all creative so that you
can develop the different 21st century skills embodied in the
framework of K to 12” said Dean Gomez in her opening remarks.
Dr. Rommel Maglaya,
faculty at St, Sholastica’s College and the resource speaker of the said event enthusiastically
shared his expertise on both teaching and acting. Armed with his knowledge, wit
and humor, he was able to further discuss that drama is not only for English
and Filipino Majors. Drama could also be used as an exciting teaching strategy
even in Math, T.LE. and computer classes.
“Our goal in
the classroom as teachers is to keep the attention of our students; our goal is
to tickle their imagination sometimes, and drama could be one of the tools, Integrating drama in the classroom
doesn’t mean that we have to teach students to be actors and actresses rather
we integrate the disciplines of drama
in teaching.” Dr. Maglaya explained. He also elaborated the advantages of drama
and its great relevance to the components of K to 12 if we are to use it inside
the classroom.
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Students gave a positive feedback on the said seminar “It helps me to realize
that k to 12 is not at all a burden, instead it enhances and broadens our
horizons to teach effectively, like in my case, I am a math Major, so it’s
surprising that math majors can also use Drama as a teaching method, it is good
that our college is preparing the students as they come face to face with k to
12” Joseph Pantig of BSED MT 3-1D remarked. Moreover, Dean Gomez told the
students to look forward to more seminars regarding K to 12 prepared by the
college.