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Picture Book Music and Educational Drama Elementary Class
I. Introduction
The original "Picture Book Music and Educational Drama" curriculum system created by the Music Wizard Studio is a cross-disciplinary curriculum that combines the three main axes of the world's classic picture books, the Orpheus music teaching method, and European and American educational drama. The content of the elementary and intermediate classes are suitable for preschool children between the ages of two and six, and the advanced classes are suitable for elementary school children between the ages of seven and twelve. They are engaged in children's music, dance, drama, art, picture books and other related fields. Professional teachers and teachers of all levels of schools can refer to the systematic courses.
"Picture Book Music and Educational Drama" is an innovative children's art integration course, which aims to train teachers to use dynamic methods to read picture books and tell stories, and through multiple art media, cultivate teachers' cross-disciplinary picture book teaching ability. In the system course, we carefully selected the world’s classic picture books that emphasize the characteristics of image and sound, action and drama, as an aesthetic object, and integrate music, dance, language rhythm, visual arts, and the study of theater styles. Mode, leading teachers to experience the magic of participating in drama immersively.
2. The Philosophical Concept of Picture Book Music and Story Drama
S Dynamic Storybook
Read picture books in a dynamic way to enhance children’s participation
M Music Perception
While telling the story, let the children feel all kinds of music genres
A Multiple Art
Develop children's multiple wisdom through multiple artistic media
D Drama Integration (Drama Integration)
To achieve the goal of cross-domain integrated learning through educational drama
Picture Book Music and Educational Drama Curriculum Framework Diagram
The integration of [Ofu Music and Educational Drama] will produce various creative thinking processes. Through drama and music, children's imagination and thinking ability will be activated and their understanding of the world will be conveyed. [Elemental Music Drama of Elemental Music Drama] was proposed by Professor Manuela and Manuela Widmer of the Ofo Music Institute of Mozart University, Germany. She believes that: [Elemental Music Drama] is a dramatic way The integration of music, rhythm, dance, language and art allows participants to develop and present various creative ideas based on their personal skills. The lecturer plays the role of adviser, facilitator and companion to encourage participants to realize their potential. [Basic Music and Drama] It is also mentioned: Picture books are a good source of scripts, as an aesthetic object (an aesthetic object) and a teaching medium (a peddagogical medium). Picture books are like a "score" and contain many things. Message, music, rhythm, dance and language can be created in each scene from the picture book.
[Educational Drama Drama in Education] uses drama and theater skills, guided by the teacher's plan and structure, and leads learners to experience the magic of participatory drama through drama strategies, role-playing, imitation, games, etc. , And play a variety of potentials in the theatrical activities of imitation and acting.
The Music Wizard Studio has been committed to various musical and drama promotion activities for many years, and the promotion of world music is the core of the curriculum. Therefore, the classroom has all kinds of Aofu instruments, world instruments and various creative props, which are carried out by the teachers. An important art medium for creative ideas of music and drama.
3. Introduction to the content of the elementary class
(1) Play with drama
Children often play a variety of potentials in the drama activities of imitating and acting. Therefore, [Fun Zhuan Drama] can let children experience the actions, interaction, thinking, creation and discussion of participating in the drama. The process is an important journey of playing drama (Zhang Liyu 2015, childhood in games). This is also the teaching principle and principle that workers engaged in educational drama need to be clearly aware of.
(2) Design music and drama games based on wordless books or book-based picture books
A "wordless picture book" is a picture book with pictures as the mainstay and text as a supplement, or even a "wordless picture book" with no words at all and all pictures. The wordless picture book uses many pictures to express, the purpose is to let the children understand the story. If the child looks at the picture and can say something, he will have the joy of "I understand". In picture book music and drama, we often use musical elements in the opening, closing or interspersed scenes, or for dancing accompaniment, character scoring and creating sound effects.
(3) Appreciation and Guided Reading of Selected World Picture Books
In the picture book appreciation course, we will share classic picture books from the world and conduct a guided reading. At the same time, we will introduce how to use these interesting picture books to tell children stories. As children from two to four years old appear in large numbers of language and vocabulary, they often add some abstract concepts (such as space, time, quantity, order) to language interaction. At this time, how can adults use guidance cleverly, or through some Can brain-developed little skills or games promote children’s language development? Teacher Chen Ruoping, who often tells stories for children in music wizard studios and community markets, and uses hand-made art and storytelling props, will take everyone into the world of picture books In the world of fun.
In musicals, music creation includes: situational sound creation, theme song creation, and musical instrument ensemble are all very important musical drama elements. In the activity, the teachers led the teachers to create sound effects, and acted as song creation and chorus performance activities, adding rich musical elements to the musical.
(5) Physical music and drama games
Integrating music and drama games into the educational scene has many benefits, among which is a kind of "physical drama activity" that is particularly suitable for use in kindergartens. It can help children develop group awareness and encourage social behaviors, in addition to increasing the oral expression ability of listening and speaking. In addition, the integration of music and physical activities can increase the fun and creativity of the activities. In the elementary course, we instruct the teacher to use the ring-style music and drama game Li Nian, and at the same time develop a theme web course activity suitable for kindergarten based on the theme of the picture book-Doll Rose Walking Tour, the activities include: body awareness, creative expression , Obstacles and adventures, instrumental ensemble, musical imagination and creative dance vocabulary.
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