Listening to my girlfriend talk about a "magical" thing: my three-year-old troublemaker, since taking a few "drama lessons", has turned into a small "leather jacket" for my mother, and even said at night: "Mom, it is really not easy for you to give birth to me!" Originally just to develop hobbies, how did you accidentally become the "lubricant" of the parent-child relationship? My girlfriend asked me, "Do drama classes still have this effect?" ”
Although theatre education is not so well known in our country, as early as the 19th century, it has become the basic education of British children, and it can be said that they grew up "playing Shakespeare". In addition to making children more confident and dare to express themselves, drama education is also an effective way to cultivate language skills and emotional intelligence.
Now, many drama classes have become popular in big cities, so today I will talk to you about the benefits of drama education, and how to play "drama games" with children at home if you don't go to extracurricular classes.
What's in a children's drama class?
When it comes to drama class, what comes to mind first? Is it a drama actor standing on stage with exaggerated expressions, or a future idol star? In fact, the drama class is not just "acting", but also focuses on the cultivation of expression, cooperative thinking and social skills. In a drama class in the UK, children mainly do the following kinds of training.
First: motor training
I don't know if you have noticed that those stars who have received professional theater training, whether they look outstanding or not, are full of charm in every move. This is because movement is a way to convey emotions, and in drama education, in order to make children more coordinated, there will be movement training such as dance, rapid response, mirror exercises and so on.
Second: language training
Previously, there was a variety show called "Sound Immersion" that attracted much attention, and it also allowed everyone to see the actors' line skills. This is because "language" is the basic skill of the drama actor, in addition to learning to sing, tongue twisters and telling jokes are all indispensable parts of language training.
Third: imagination
My girlfriend told me that the first time I took my baby to a drama class, I wondered if the institution was "cheating money", and a large group of children ran around the classroom. Go home and ask your son what he has learned? The son said, "It's funny, we played a class T-Rex!" "I told her that this is the training of the imagination, and it is also the most "dramatic" part of learning, so that children can tell stories, understand the characters, and learn through play.
How does taking a "drama class" help a child?
Seeing this, parents may think: How can acting as a T-Rex help their children? In the future, I will not become an actor and go to the road of idol stardom. As everyone knows, in the Western education system, drama is the most important educational model since ancient Greece, and its status is no less than that of poetry education on the mainland.
The famous educator Dewey once said: Drama is an important teaching method, which has irreplaceable advantages for the cultivation of students' learning, expression, cooperation, imagination and social skills.
First, stimulate children's creativity.
In this era of increasingly rapid change, we are seeing a lot of work being replaced by artificial intelligence, and many far-sighted parents can't help but wonder what is the ability of their children to gain an advantage in future competition. Everyone has the answer in their hearts: creativity.
For example, in Tim's drama class, the teacher inspired them: "Now imagine that you wake up in a forest, how do you feel, what do you see, and what do you do next?" "Some of the children were horrified, some of them were enjoying, but everyone's answer was different, but it was reasonable.
Second, increase self-confidence in expression.
When I talked to Tim's mom and dad in the drama class, I could clearly feel that everyone was conveying this feeling: "The child is more confident than before." "It's actually related to learning how to speak and how to use gesture assistance in front of many people after learning to express for a while." This ability has unexpected benefits for future workplaces or interpersonal communication.
Finally, communication between parents and children is smoother.
As my girlfriend said at the beginning of the article, after studying drama for a while, the relationship between parents and children has eased more. Later, she learned that in the Mother's Day drama in rehearsal, the teacher let her son play a "pregnant mother", and every time he went to class, he had to carry a prop balloon on his stomach to imitate the pregnancy of October. "Standing in the position of others" to understand the role is also the charm of theater education. Through observation and imitation, analysis of roles, and understanding of others will gradually become children's thinking patterns.
Mastering the core logic can also be played at home
Because the effect of drama education is ideal, and because it is an imported product, many institutions will play the banner of drama education. Many even make "performances" their main purpose. But theatre education is not about performing on stage at all, improvisation, imitation and discussion are the core components. Moreover, if you can grasp the core logic of drama education, even if you don't go to the institution, parents can use their children's love for "imitation games" to play with their babies at home.
1. Story
Children understand the world through imitation, and around the age of 3 they will enter a "imitation period", when if you observe carefully, you will find that the babies will learn to cook with their mothers with their own small pots and bowls, and learn to pose in various shapes like cartoons Riotman. This age is a good opportunity to cut into drama education, parents can find a baby familiar, simple plot picture book story, such as "Good Hungry Caterpillar", "The Sun Burps" with children assigned roles, interpret the story together, and exercise children's language expression and physical coordination skills in imitation.
2. Understand the role
Around the age of 5, children have a deeper understanding of society, and when playing with their peers, children may spontaneously play different roles. For example, every time Tim and his cousin meet, the two people will tacitly play the role of "superhero", Tim plays Iron Man, cousin plays Spider-Man, and the two go to "save the world".
Many parents are reluctant to play this kind of game with their children silly, and even sometimes poke them for fun. In fact, this is a good time to carry out drama education, it is recommended that you can discuss with your children the roles they often play, and guide them to understand the motivations of the roles more deeply.
3. Interactivity
In order to stimulate children's creativity and imagination, parents can create more opportunities to "act" with their children, and the scope of improvisation can preferably be the child's real life, and then change some inherent programs, set some variables, and let them give full play to their imagination.
For example, when playing pretend travel games with children, you can assume some thrilling links, and when you have played home games, you can encourage children to create unique cooking methods and so on.
In the early hours of the morning, mom came to nag:
"Acting" is a human instinct, and even the little babies in the treasure are learning in an imitative way. And imitation is the basis of drama. Drama education is not as tall as some people think, the essence is still to use a scientific way to communicate with children, help them give full play to their imagination and creativity, and learn how to express, how to listen, and how to cooperate with others. Master the method Mom and Dad can also accompany their children at home to "act" Oh!
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