Teach us!

The ‘better together’ drama club in Jabalia isn’t up and running right now as the situation in Jabalia has been so appallingly difficult. Hanaa is doing her best to reestablish it and I’m sure she will as soon as she can. In the mean time we’d like to share a great activity that Hanaa had running through the sessions a few months back, before most people in Jabalia were displaced.

‘Teach us!’ isn’t strictly speaking a drama activity, but there are lots of links with drama of course. Those of us who teach will know that drama skills can help us to be better teachers, and teaching can also help us to be better at acting.

In Hanna’s activity the students took it in turns to teach the other students something, using English. We think it’s a brilliant idea - so motivating and personalised for everyone. Next time I teach a class of children I’ll try it out. Would it work in your context?

Here are two examples from the amazing students of the better together drama club.