Arts Education - Drama

The teacher could have decided to motivate the development of these prepared improvisations by having the students watch an actual news broadcast in class time. This would have provided them an opportunity to observe and discuss the structure of such programming and the roles played by each of those who appeared before the camera, and would have made the objectives of the task clearer. Some of the students viewed such broadcasts on their own in out-of-class time and this was evident in the work of the groups in which those students worked.

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