Who Needs AFL When We Have Got Drama? £50.00

Assessment for Learning (AfL) as a concept has been welcomed –but all too often degenerates into deadly question and answer led by the most able students, leaving others switched off. Any drama gets lost, boredom kicks in, you find yourself playing ‘guess what’s in teacher’s head’ and you begin to wonder what happened to lively vibrant drama lessons which were more fun, more productive and seemed to get ‘more done’.

In the ‘chase the next initiative’ climate in which we find ourselves, it is easy to forget that good drama teaching is, by its very nature, full of AfL activities in any case. With minor adaptation you can keep your class fully engaged with AfL while being busy in drama and becoming more fluent in the art form.

The session looks critically at the recommendations of Black and Williams – whose work has been over simplified in schools generally and will put you back in touch with the art form of drama lesson planning, re-connect you to your instinctive drive towards what is good practice and revitalise AfL in a way only drama knows how. Attendees will leave having revisited the drama form as a rich learning and assessment tool totally in keeping with AFL values without having to interrupt their lessons by doing so.

Amanda Kipling has been a secondary drama teacher and is currently the leader of the PGCE Drama Course at Goldsmiths College. She specialised in voice at Central School of Speech and Drama, has been a member of the English Speaking Board for many years and is a former editor of ESB’s Speaking English magazine and a Trustee of London Drama.

Date: Tuesday 21st June 2011: 6.30-8.30pm
Venue: Central School of Speech and Drama

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Concession Course Fees: ---Non Member Students (£25.00)Unwaged Non Members (£25.00)

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