Intervention Implementation

 > > Hunch:  “If I merge different components from The Arts and Science curriculum to supplement teaching Literacy/Numeracy concepts, it will make the activities much more enticing for my students, who will then be more interested to engage.” < <

Identified target learners (who demonstrate low levels of engagement):

• Student R

• Student Q

• Student M1

• Student M2

Term 2 Implementation:
I deliberately planned to deliver Literacy with Drama and Science with Visual Arts to pique the interest of of my low engagement students.

Intervention #1: Integration of Science and Visual Arts
By teaching Science (Topic: Fire) alongside Visual Arts to create artwork projects which explicitly teach the language of melting, boiling, heating, burning while using them as techniques to create a fire effect.

Intervention #2: Integration of Drama with Script Writing (Literacy)

The idea was to weave Drama and Literacy: Script Writing together to explore the story “Maui and the Goddess of Fire”. The focus was to bring this Maori myth/legend alive through drama features while building comprehension of the text (setting, character descriptions and emotive language). 

DRAMA:

• Expressions: To use facial expressions to demonstrate emotions; transition from one expression to another. 

• Body/Gesture: To use different bodily movements
  i.e. different heights and shapes; control my movements while travelling through the acting space.

• Tone/Voice: To use voice techniques in different ways to convey various expressions

SCRIPT WRITING:

• To use a range of descriptive vocabulary (wow/emotive/senses) to describe the setting and characters through exploration of the 5 senses: Smell, Touch, Taste, Sight, Sound

• To know features of a script (eg name; speech; narrator, action) and differentiate between narrator and characters.