Devising for Secondary Teachers

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Region: Metro, Metropolitan South

Teachers

This course is an excellent opportunity for you to develop high-level skills in making performance works, engaging in creative practices and exploring dramatic contexts for secondary students. You will gain practical insight, knowledge and skills applicable to a wide range of school contexts and you will be equipped with teaching strategies and program scaffolds to take back to the classroom.

This course is suitable for teachers and support staff and is open to teachers from both government and non-government schools.

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About the workshop

Sessions will focus on:

Engaging students through movement, music, and drama
Creating performances from a range of stimulus material
Managing collaborative learning experiences and group work
Using non-verbal communication focusing on empowering and teaching students through performance, movement, and gesture
Using student experiences to create devised documentary drama performances

This course is suitable for teachers and support staff and is open to teachers from both government and non-government schools.

Applications open Monday 10 February and close Friday 2 May 2025

Workshop information

The program is a 1 day teacher professional learning workshop

Date: Term 2 Week 5, Tuesday 27 May 2025
Time: 9 am – 3 pm

Venue: The Arts Unit, corner of the Boulevard and Toothill street, Lewisham.

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Application process

Complete the application form, including all your students' details and contact teacher information.
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Program fees

This program is free for 1 teacher per participating school for the Multicultural Storytelling Program
$200 for all other government teachers attending the professional learning.
$300 for non government teachers.

Payment

Government teachers will need to enter school details including school code and SAM contacts. The amount will be transferred from your school to the Arts Unit.
Non-government teachers will need to pay via the Arts Unit payment portal for teachers.
Government teachers can choose to pay via the Arts Unit payment portal for teachers and use a credit card. The Arts Unit will not debit the school in this case.

To use the payment portal

Go to the payment portal.
Select Arts Initiatives from the program drop down.
Then select 'Devising for Secondary Teachers' and the non-government fee of $300 and government fee of $200 should come up.

Multicultural Storytelling Program

Drama

Years 7 to 12

Supports students from refugee backgrounds and students who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD).

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Workshop schedule

Time	Activity
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Welcome and registration
9:00 am – 9:30 am	Session 1 Introductions and icebreakers
9:30 am – 10:00 am	Session 2 Warm ups
10:00 am – 11:00 am	Session 3 The Elements of Drama
11:00 am – 11:15 am	Morning Tea
11:15 am – 11:45 am	Session 3 – continued The Elements of Drama – part 2
11:45 am – 12:45 pm	Session 4 Generating material using personal stories. Free-writing, photographs, narration, physical storytelling, character and comedy
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm	Session 5 Devising and performance – How can we weave our material together and enhance it with the elements of drama.
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm	Questions, reflections and examples of devised work Time for questions and reflections on the day. Showing some examples of devised work using the strategies explored today.