Drama

Perhaps allow me to do a brief introduction on myself with regards to this subject, Drama. I am actually majoring Drama in NIE. I learn theatrecrafts and also Drama with regards to education. Thus, i am trained in making theatre works and teaching Drama as a subject itself.

It has been my 3rd consecutive week observing and helping out in Speech & Drama Club. As much as i could, i tried to attend both AM & PM sessions of it. I really enjoyed and relished these sessions as i don't get to observe Drama in classroom curriculum unlike my Drama classmates in other schools. Thus i tried my best to make use of the limited time i had and and shared with the students some of the drama conventions that they can apply to their preparation for Trinity & Guildhall Speech & Drama examinations. So actually i had already started co-teaching a class through these drama lessons. Some of my friends may think that teaching CCA is less demanding as compared to teaching a curriculum lesson. Not exactly. The conventions i adopted for this CCA are the same as those used in Drama lessons of schools' main curriculum such as the schools in UK, Australia, New Zealand, Mayflower Pri Sch, Tampines Pri Sch, Gongshang Pri Sch, Ang Mo Kio Sec Sch, St Margaret's Sch, CHIJ Sec Sch, Anderson Sec Sch etc.

Drama as a subject may seem new in Singapore, but it is definitely not new overseas. In Singapore, Drama has always been seen as a tool to complement language studies, especially English. Although Drama can be used as a tool to facilitate and complement certain components in English and other subjects, let us not forget that it is also a subject in its own right(Woolland, 1993). Education system in New Zealand, Australia, UK and America have been including Drama in their main school curriculum all these years. Thus in my course of studies, we studied the Drama curriculum in these places and explored on how they can be modified and applied in local context.


Woolland, B. (1993). The teaching of drama in the primary school. England: Pearson.