Week 1, Day 5, Thursday,6 sept

We had 3 learning sessions

1.       How to create effective lesson for foreign students

2.       Learning how to read in hangul

3.       GCED session: Using theatre as a platform

Session 3 is very interesting. The person handling the programme is a professor from the Phillipines. First, he asked us to walk around. Team A looked up and team B looked down. Then, everyone described their feeling  about being superior or caring more for others.

Then, next activity, she asked us to do hand gesture. At first, it is action of a handshake. Then, one of the pair leave the other pair and someone else comes in and continue with shaking the other person’s hand. Then, this is repeatedly occurring but the other person who comes in must do a different action. It was fun and enjoyable.

Next, is doing the handshake, but this time, when the pair leave, another person must come in and create a picture of bullying. Then, another person comes in and continue the picture. In the end, there were 8 people in the picture. After that, the characters must come up with a dialogue and say it. This is picture A.

After that, another 2 picture is created before and after picture A. In the end, this will create a full story, start,climax and ending. This was fun and everyone get to experienced being the bully or the bullied. Everyone started to point out how this will make students show their experience, hence, we are including and celebrating their prior knowledge deeply in the learning session. We can also detect the students’ creativity or experience via this activity.

Drama could really help students to “learn while doing”, as promoted by Constructivism theory. Students will start to make their interpretation and analysis on situation that is happening around them. This is what GCED is promoting. Besides culture and world knowledge, GCED is aiming at celebrating each individual in the world, with hope that this effort will promote peace to the world as everyone understand and respect each other better.

That night, we had our last dance practice. It was sad as it was the last one but we can’t wait to do our best and introduce the crowd to Malaysian culture. Lina and tracy , the dance choreaographers gave their last words of motivation for us to do our best the next day.