Drama Strategy: Drama for Thinking

While some Drama strategies are clearly connected with thinking, such as thought tracking and conscience alley, all strategies are thinking frames, offering a way of sca olding and sharing thinking during the drama-making process. Teachers can select and adapt any strategy with the specific intention of stimulating different types of thinking.

Students often get stuck in repeated patterns of thinking. When teachers change instructions and adapt strategies, they can stimulate different and deeper thinking – always setting up drama strategies the same way is likely to reinforce the same types and patterns of student thinking.

Strategies can help us build, slow down, hold still and/or dismantle significant moments. This gives opportunity and time for analysis and reflection.