Primary School PL Workshop
DramaWest warmly invites all primary or primary drama specialist teachers to our upcoming professional learning workshop facilitated by the incredible Dr Gabrielle Metcalf.
About Gabrielle
Gabrielle has been teaching drama in schools and universities for the past 30 years.
She has lectured in Education and Drama at The University of Notre Dame, Curtin University, ECU/ WAAPA, Beijing Normal University and taught in numerous schools and community groups in Australia and internationally. She advocates that Drama has inherent value both as a discrete subject, and as a vehicle for learning across multiple disciplines. She has co-written a book for Chinese primary school teachers (with no experience of teaching Drama) that provides a series of age-appropriate drama programs and lessons for primary students.
Event details
Who should attend?
This workshop will be ideal for anyone that is seeking to add to their toolbox of skills and approaches going forward in the Primary Drama classroom.
This might include those who are:
We encourage you to reach out to any teaching colleagues to let them know about this valuable upcoming opportunity to work with fellow primary drama teachers and an extraordinary practitioner in this area.
In the meantime, you are also very welcome to reach out to the DramaWest team to check in via info@dramawest.com
We cannot wait to welcome our primary community to this event,
The 2024 DramaWest Committee
About Gabrielle
Gabrielle has been teaching drama in schools and universities for the past 30 years.
She has lectured in Education and Drama at The University of Notre Dame, Curtin University, ECU/ WAAPA, Beijing Normal University and taught in numerous schools and community groups in Australia and internationally. She advocates that Drama has inherent value both as a discrete subject, and as a vehicle for learning across multiple disciplines. She has co-written a book for Chinese primary school teachers (with no experience of teaching Drama) that provides a series of age-appropriate drama programs and lessons for primary students.
Event details
- Date: Thursday 16 May (Term 2, Week 5)
- Time: 3.45 pm registration and networking afternoon tea, followed by a 4.00 to 5.30 pm professional learning workshop.
- Location: Melville Primary School (Primary Drama Classroom space)
- Live Webex option available to regional/rural attendees only.
- Cost: Free and accessible to all current 2024 DramaWest Members.
Who should attend?
This workshop will be ideal for anyone that is seeking to add to their toolbox of skills and approaches going forward in the Primary Drama classroom.
This might include those who are:
- Generalist primary classroom teachers or relief teachers that delve into the drama space here and there.
- New or reasonably new to teaching primary drama
- Anyone, both experienced and beginning, that would like to network and extend your professional learning in this space.
We encourage you to reach out to any teaching colleagues to let them know about this valuable upcoming opportunity to work with fellow primary drama teachers and an extraordinary practitioner in this area.
In the meantime, you are also very welcome to reach out to the DramaWest team to check in via info@dramawest.com
We cannot wait to welcome our primary community to this event,
The 2024 DramaWest Committee
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