Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning

About the course

This new course is based on a book that I co-wrote with Alicja Galazka, ‘Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning‘ (Bloomsbury, October 2021).

Process Drama provides emotionally engaging contexts, within which students feel motivated to speak appropriately in various situations, to influence the drama. During the process, they are gaining confidence to talk in a second language and developing 21st Century skills. Teachers will be introduced to various drama strategies, that can be used to support second language teaching. The configurations and protocols of various strategies will be explained, and ways in which they can be framed, to open up different types of talk opportunities. Clear instructions will be given, about how to set up, adapt and sequence strategies, to open up and extend talk opportunities and make language learning memorable.

Online course sessions enable some of the strategies to be explained, whereas school-based sessions enable participants to try out some of the strategies together during the session.

Handouts

– An article about ‘Drama for Second Language Teaching’
– A booklet of strategies
– An edited copy of the Powerpoint (as a PDF)
– Several one-page articles about specific strategies

Cost

Twilights (up to 2 hours, on site or online): £225
Half day on site or online, (up to 3 hours): £350
Full day on site, (up to 6 hours): £650

These costs are based on one school and up to 30 participants.

Plus
· Above 30 participants, add £10 per additional person
· Travel @45p a mile, (capped at £175)
· Overnight budget hotel accommodation, (if required)

To book this course for your school (online or ‘face to face’), email patrice@patricebaldwin.com

Towards Creative Teaching and Learning Project (CTL)

I was lead trainer for this ground-breaking initiative for Supplementary School teachers in London. Its main aim is to make teaching more creative, interactive and dialogic, (and less desk based). The project has now been integrated into the YPF Trust Quality Mark framework.

To find out more about this project, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXegpoWatg and https://www.supplementaryeducation.org.uk/nrcse-towards-creative-teaching-and-learning-project-with-patrice-baldwin/

To read an article about this project, published in Drama and Theatre magazine (Spring Term 1, 2024-25), click here.

I gave a keynote speech at the 2024 ARDAA conference at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris about, ‘Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning’.

For further information, click here: https://ardaa2024.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en