Learning opportunities, curriculum links
Students learn to respond to drama by talking about the drama experiences that they engage in, both in school situations and in their daily lives.
When responding to drama, students work across the four strands of The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum:
- Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama (PK)
- Developing Ideas in Drama (DI)
- Communicating and Interpreting in Drama (CI)
- Understanding Drama in Context (UC).
As students progress in their ability to view and discuss drama, they will be able to:
- demonstrate appropriate audience behaviours when presenting and sharing (level 1)
- identify and discuss how drama tells stories (level 1)
- discuss the use of elements within a shared work (level 2)
- discuss a performance’s intention and how it is communicated, making comparisons with their own work (level 2)
- observe the use of elements, techniques, and conventions in order to identify strengths and weaknesses (level 3)
- identify and discuss how drama creates meaning and engages the audience (level 3)
- identify and discuss how and why communities express themselves through drama in the past and the present (level 3)
- evaluate how elements, techniques, and conventions shape a performance (level 4)
- recognise dramatic texts as representative of particular forms in cultures and histories (level 4).
The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars: The Arts (the drama matrix)
For more detail on the key aspects of learning that inform progression in drama, refer to The Arts (drama matrix).