Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 學習與媒材設計學系課程與教學碩士學位在職專班 === 103 === This research aimed to explore the process of the implementation of creative drama in the preschool's localization curriculum, the result of the implementation in terms of children's learning performance and understanding of the local people and things in Cailiao area of Sanchong District, and the teacher's reflection and learning in the research process.
In this research, an action research was conducted on twenty-nine children at the researcher's multi-age class. The information and analysis in this research were based on the observation, interviewing and documentary including the teaching journal during a period of four months' creative drama teaching activities. The conclusions of the research are as below.
1. The developing curriculum process of integrating creative drama teaching with the localized curriculum.
a. The curriculum are divided into three stages: “the developing stage of the drama”, “the creating stage of the drama activities”, the creative performing stage of the drama activities”.
b. The flow chart of the curriculum .
2. The teaching strategies employed in the implementation of the curriculum
a. Children would know their residence, achieving the developing of drama activities and elaborate effects of the drama scripts with the use of Google Maps and actual community-visiting experiences.
b. Activities such as "storytelling","role-play","teacher in role" and "round robin storytelling" in creative drama teaching can effectively lead children to create localized drama stories and complete the scripts.
c. Children are guided to do" stage design","caption-making", "sound imitation", "body movements", "impromptu", and "collective character" according to their own ideas, successfully making stage preparation, doing performance as well as understanding the local culture in Cailiao area of Sanchong District.
3. The challenges and solutions of the implementation of creative drama in the preschool's localization curriculum
a. The researcher successfully aroused children's interest in the origins of the local place names from The researcher own experiences.
b. The problems of children's deficiency in their old experiences could be successfully solved by adopting "teacher in role", "collective drawing" and "drama games playing " in creative drama teaching.
c. Due to different abilities of children, each of them was provided with an opportunity to perform by adequately adjusting the way and the content of the performance
d. Collaborative teachers and parents were invited to participate in teaching activities to increase diverse perspectives and solve the manpower deficiency issue.
e. The preschool-wide activities could be combined to solve the insufficient teaching time issue.
4. The effects of creative drama curriculum on children's learning
a. Children showed excellent performance on "self-assertiveness", "verbal expression", "body movements", "problem solving" and "team work"
b. Children would explore things about their growing places on their own initiative in the curricular activities.
c. Children learned about things and people in Cailiao area of Sanchong District from creative drama teaching activities.
In the end, recommendations based on the results of the study are provided for future educators' reference .
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