Creativity in Education

[SaphiraL at aol.com]

Yes, Bud. I have been following.  I worked with theater, many arts  
modalities and psychodrama in some of the worst schools in Boston in the  1970s and 
1980s (was a terrible school system--see Jonathan Kozol). As a  Teaching Company 
who were also an Acting Company, we told special needs teachers  to give us 
the students who were failing for whatever reason, emotional  disturbance, 
learning disabilities, lack of motivation because of socio-economic  situation etc. 
and we played theater games with cognitive and  social goals integrated into 
them. We did mini psychodramas and sociodramas  on the level that the young 
people could respond.. We worked toward making  school fun and creative. It was 
a wonderful few years that we did this. It was  so gratifying to see how 
responsive these "worst students" were. I believe we  need to train the powers that 
be in education systems about how to teach their  mandated curriulum using 
the arts, and that means the creative arts therapies  from my perspective. We 
did a television series teaching Language Arts for  grades 1-6 that became a 
national series, in which theater modalities were used  to teach Language arts 
skills. We then trained teachers in many school systems  in Mass. to use these 
modalities. 
My vision: That all educational systems through out the country become  aware 
of the power of using the embodied arts as more effective ways to teach  
anything, because students are learning with all of their senses. This  means that 
they recall what they have learned more effectively, besides  inspiring and 
motivating students to want to learn because it is creative and  fun. 
I appreciate this discussion.
 
Best, Saphira Linden
 

 
 
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