LEARNING THROUGH ART: TECHNOLOGY, MUSIC AND DRAMA

Course description

This course integrates components of e-learning, drama activities in the classroom and learning through music. The process of learning is complex and always should include multiple approaches. We will combine seemingly unrelatable: drama, music, and technology. Music is a part of the childcare curriculum; not only that children learn cause and effect when playing the instruments, but they also practice fine-motor coordination and learn about emotions. Drama activities enable children to practice empathy and to develop interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. And finally, technology is an inevitable fact in every classroom of today – digital classroom can be the vehicle for any art. This course will provide the participants to engage in activities that unite digital classroom, drama, and music. It will give the participants a useful ideas on how to put interesting activities into practice.

Methodology:

The methodological approach implicates:
Ice – Breaking and Warm – Up Sessions
Energizers
Role-Playing
Music Activities
E-Learning Platforms
Team – Building Sessions
Group Discussions
Debates
Creation of an individual learning pathway for the learners;
Problem – Solving Activities
Project – Solving Activities
Questioning
Goal – Setting sessions
Decision – Making Sessions
Action-Based Strategies
Brainstorming
Star bursting
Planning an Structuring
Negotiation and Persuasion
Self – Motivation Sessions
Questionnaires
Objectives

Enhancing the awareness of multiple intelligence in the classroom;
Developing tools and techniques for learning through art;
Learning about the link between music, drama, and technology;
Encouraging students to question the process of learning;
Developing listening skills by learning through music;
Exchanging experiences and cross-cultural practices in creativity and innovation through technology and art.
Learning Outcomes

Getting practical ideas for applying in the classroom in the areas of drama, technology, and musical education
Learning how to draw students' attention through a learner-based approach
Making your lessons more engaging through role-playing and other drama activities
Learning how to use educational platforms available online in the classroom
Learning about e-learning
Improved creative thinking skills of both teachers and their students
Development of tools and techniques for innovative problem solving
Learning how to approach the student considering multiple intelligence theory
Improvement of language and communication skills
Increased capacity to cooperate on an international level
Enhancing intercultural awareness
Internationalization and modernization of your approach
Follow-up

Trainees will be given soft and hard copies of all lesson materials, which they presenting to their colleagues at their own organizations to generate interest in 21st-century teaching methods with creative thinking. In addition, a mailing list of participants will be created in order to exchange ideas/experiences. Self-evaluation materials will be provided. At the end of the course the participants will accomplish a questionnaire in order to get a detailed feedback for the effectiveness of the training event.