creativity across the curriculum k-6 primary sessions · 2019. 2. 8. · conference day 1 friay ay...

CREATIVITY ACROSS THE CURRICULUMK-6 PRIMARY SESSIONS

8:00 – 9:00am REGISTRATION

9:00 – 10:30am ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

CONFERENCE WELCOME Lisa Mumford and Tamara Sweetman, Co-Conveners of Drama NSW State Conference Kelly Young, President of Drama NSW Mrs Vicki Waters, Principal of Pymble Ladies’ College

KEYNOTE – I ❤ Art! Eamon Flack, Artistic Director, Belvoir

10:30 – 11:00am MORNING TEA

CREATIVITY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

CREATIVE FOUNDATIONS

CREATIVITY UNDER PRESSURE

CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY

CREATIVE APPROACHES TO DEVISINGK-6 Primary Stages 4-5 Drama Stage 6 Drama

11:00am – 12:30pm

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A1 Laughter is the Most Marvellous Medicine Naomi Russell shake & stir theatre company

B1 Revolutionising Stage 4/5 Written Work Tahnae Luke Newtown High School of the Performing Arts

C1 Augusto Boal: Theatre of the Oppressed Paul Eastway Shore School

D1 Live Streaming Theatre: Authentic experiences and meaningful collaborations in the digital space Rowan Bate Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP)

E1 Viewpoints and Devising Work

Shane Anthony and Tina Mitchell Chopt Logic Productions, Physical Actor Training

(Masterclass/ Practical Workshop)(Practical Workshop) (Practical Workshop) (Practical Workshop) (Presentation)

12:30 – 1:15pm LUNCH

1:15 – 2:45pm

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A2 A Dramatic Approach to Primary Mathematics: A Revolutionary Idea?Wendy Buswell Australian Catholic University

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Vocalise your Creative Revolution Linda Nicholls-Gidley Voice, dialect and accent coach, Voco Vox

C2

HSC Critical Analysis: Strategies for Success Pia Midgley Barker College

D2

Stages 5 & 6: The Experiments that Worked (multi-disciplinary theatre and other approaches)

Amy Murphy and Sean Travers, James Ruse Agricultural HS

Jamie Gerlach The University of Sydney

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Creativity in Devising – Using Physical Stimuli to Create TheatreRyan Desaulnier St Andrew’s Cathedral School

(Practical Workshop) (Practical Workshop) (Masterclass) (Masterclass) (Practical Workshop)

2:45 – 3:05pm AFTERNOON TEA

3:05 – 4:35pm

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Exploring the possibilities of a drama-led curriculum through the rolling role system of teachingDr Christine Hatton University of Newcastle

Dr Mary Mooney University of Western Sydney

Jenny Nicholls Macquarie University

B3

Working “The Triangle” – Helping Students Coordinate the interplay of masks, gags and scenario in Commedia Paul Dwyer The University of Sydney

C3

The A, B, C of HSC Costume Design – mentoring and marking your students developmentGabrielle Keats Mount St Benedict College

D3

The Theatrical Functions of Light Graham Henstock Head of Technical Theatre and Stage Management, National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)

E3.1 Women in Theatre Sonia Byrnes Meriden School (Paper Presentation)ORE3.2

The Drama Revolution: 3 Research Based Approaches(Practical Workshop) (Practical Workshop) (Masterclass) (Masterclass)

(Paper Presentations)

4:35 – 5:30pm CANAPES AND DRINKS

CREATIVE CURRENT PRACTICE IN EDUCATION

• Gift giving in the Drama classroom: can process drama exist authentically within a school structure Joanna Winchester, Australian Catholic University

• Creating Cultural Change Through Community PracticeGenevieve Duncan, University of Southern Queensland

• Listening on country – knowledge as a negotiated experienceLinden Wilkinson, The University of Sydney

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CONFERENCE DAY 1Friday 11 May 2018

AT A GLANCE

8:00 – 9:00am REGISTRATION

9:00 – 10:00am KEYNOTE PRESENTATION – Imagine the Dramatic (r)evolutionJohn Nicholas Saunders, Education Manager, Sydney Theatre CompanyDr Mary Mooney, Associate Professor, University of Western SydneyDr Madonna Stinson, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University

DRAMA NSW AWARDS AND PRIZES

10:00 – 10:30am MORNING TEA

CREATIVITY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

CREATIVE FOUNDATIONS

CREATIVITY UNDER PRESSURE

CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY

CREATIVE APPROACHES TO DEVISINGK-6 Primary Stages 4-5 Drama Stage 6 Drama

10:30am – 12:00pm

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A4 Drama, Visible Thinking and Concept Programming in the Primary English ClassroomSue McIntosh Asquith Public School

B4 An Approach to Teaching Directing Mathew Clausen and Gill Cooper Loreto Kirribili

C4 Putting practice to paper: How to approach the Written Examination Samantha Bauer Emanuel School and Christopher Rutherford Brigidine College

D4 Technology in Drama: To Yield or Block Amy Gill The Lakes College – Youth Off The Streets

E4 Dynamics: The Physics Behind Drama Ryan Whitworth Catching Dreams Theatre Company

(Practical Workshop) (Masterclass) (Masterclass) (Masterclass) (Practical Workshop)

12:00 – 1:00pm LUNCH

1:00 – 2:30pm

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A5 Dealing with dragons: a dramatic imaginaryDr Madonna Stinson Griffith University

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Teaching Playwriting: Creativity in PracticePaul Gardiner The University of Sydney

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Strategies to Approach the Elements of Production in the Classroom Christopher Montgomery Reddam House

D5

Creating Story for the Screen

Mathew Clausen Loreto Kirribili

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All Hands on the Play Deck: Playbuilding TechniquesLesley Christen and Michael Gallaway

(Practical Workshop) (Masterclass) (Practical Workshop) (Masterclass) (Masterclass)

2:30 – 2:50pm AFTERNOON TEA

2:50 – 4:20pm

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Using Drama Pedagogy to Enhance Literacy Learning John Nicholas Saunders Sydney Theatre Company

B6

Taking the Improvised Imaginative Leap Lyn Pierse Improcorp Australia

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Approaches to Acting: Jacques Lecoq Erica Roberts Canterbury Girls High School

D6

Tree of Life: Teenage refugees tell their stories on stageSamantha McGowan Treehouse Theatre

E6

Constructing a Monologue: Developing a Character’s Journey and Refining IntentionsJane Simmons The Arts Unit

(Practical Workshop)(Masterclass/ Practical Workshop) (Practical Workshop)

(Performance/ Presentation) (Masterclass)

4:20 – 5:45pm CANAPES AND DRINKS

CONFERENCE DAY 2Saturday 12 May 2018

AT A GLANCE

CREATIVE CURRENT PRACTICE IN EDUCATION

Imagine the Creative Revolution – DRAMA NSW STATE CONFERENCE 2018 3


Session 1

CREATIVITY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: K-6 Primary

A1 Laughter is the most Marvellous MedicineNaomi Russell : shake and stir theatre company

Using highly practical activities from Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine, you’ll explore

just how fun Children’s Theatre can be for anyone ages 6 – 106. Leave with a suite of ideas for

your own classroom, adaptable for primary right through to high school. Using script excerpts

from shake & stir’s stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s wacky tale, the workshop incorporates key

conventions including: imagination, story-telling, narration, creativity, voice & movement and

laughter in a full 90 mins of doing what we drama teachers do best – embracing the silly. So

come and join the shake & stir team for a full dose of creativity, story-telling & marvellous fun!

Naomi Russell is the full time Education Manager at shake & stir theatre co. She is passionate about creating

engaging arts experiences for students of all ages. During her 6 years with the company, Naomi has been

responsible for managing shake & stir's thriving after-school drama programs, developing and facilitating

workshops, masterclasses, tutorials and teacher professional development sessions for delivery in schools,

creating extensive teacher resource kits for in-school and Mainstage productions and coordinating the annual

QLD Youth Shakespeare Festival. Naomi also sits on the Drama Australia board, and teaches Drama Education

at the University of Queensland. Prior to working with shake & stir, Naomi was a full-time English and Drama

teacher with experience teaching in both QLD and UK schools.P

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Session 2


A2 A Dramatic Approach to Primary Mathematics: A Revolutionary Idea?Wendy Buswell : Australian Catholic University

Proficiency in Mathematics is an essential life skill but sometimes finding ways to engage

students in the subject can be difficult. This practical workshop is for primary teachers who are

interested in broadening their approach to teaching mathematics. Participants will discover

ways of exploring a variety of mathematical concepts (such as spatial reasoning, patterns,

sequencing) through movement, storytelling and improvisation. Perhaps the workshop may

even revolutionise your teaching practice. Comfortable clothes and a pen and paper required.

Wendy Buswell is an experienced drama teacher, director and researcher who currently works at the Australian

Catholic University as a sessional drama tutor and lecturer. She has worked in Australian and international

schools and recently was involved in facilitating drama workshops in regional NSW primary schools. Wendy

believes that drama pedagogy has wide ranging applications, as demonstrated by her recently completed

thesis which explored the potential for actor training to enhance team cohesion in rugby teams. Discovering

ways in which drama can be used in the teaching of mathematics is a new found passion.P

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Session 3


A3 Exploring the possibilities of a drama-led curriculum through the rolling role system ofteachingDr Christine Hatton : University of Newcastle Dr Mary Mooney : University of Western Sydney Jenny Nicholls : Macquarie University

This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to working with drama as a

rich pedagogy for teaching other areas of the curriculum. Marrying drama and science this

workshop will demonstrate how Dorothy Heathcote’s ‘rolling role’ system of teaching can

be used to work in transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary ways in the primary classroom. The

workshop will showcase an international rolling role project that connected teachers and

students across four countries and five sites, in a multifaceted drama called The Water Reckoning

Project (https://www.water-reckoning.net ). This project repurposed Heathcote’s system using

digital technologies to investigate climate change and water cooperation. Participants will get a

practical introduction to the system and consider ways to use it across the primary curriculum.

Dr Christine Hatton is a lecturer in the School of Education, University of Newcastle, Australia. Christine

researches and teaches in the field of drama and arts education, creative pedagogies, teacher artistry and

artists in residence. She is particularly interested in ethnodrama and performed research methodologies.

Recent projects have explored the use of technologies in drama education and the workings of gender, story

and identity in drama teaching and learning processes.

Associate Professor Mary Mooney is Deputy Dean of the School of Education, Western Sydney University,

Australia. Mary teaches in the field of drama and arts education, and pedagogy. She is interested in theoretical

framings around the cultural practices of young people ranging from investigations into creative, digital

and performative youth arts. Recent research projects include investigations of artists-in-residence, teacher

effectiveness and positive behaviour for learning.

Jenny Nicholls is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Creative Arts at Macquarie University. Jenny has worked as an

academic, education consultant and theatre director. She is co-editor with Mary Mooney of ‘Drama Journeys:

Inside Drama Learning’ and ‘Not in the Script: Performance Monologues from Unexpected Places’ with John

McCallum.

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https://www.water-reckoning.net/


Session 4


A4 Drama, Visible Thinking and Concept Programming in the Primary English ClassroomSue McIntosh : Asquith Public School

LINKING WITH DRAMA with VISIBLE THINKING © IN THE PRIMARY ENGLISH [concept]

CLASSROOM or Concept English meets Process Drama while embedding Cultures of Thinking

in the Primary classroom – easy for you to say!

Just imagine a Primary school teacher who can utilise fabulous pedagogy (proven successful

research) to productively enrich her craft, at the same time as ‘covering off” on syllabus

expectations? It IS creatively imaginable and completely possible. Pre-service, beginners, the

nervous, the mid career, the accomplished and the old-hack will all enjoy and revolt by joining

Sue in this session of mutual learning. Together let us discover solution to our primary battle

- lack of time and so much to get through. Using creative and collaborative thinking we will

discuss, share and experience a practical application of Primary English Concept teaching using

process drama (STC – School Drama©) and visible thinking routines (Harvard, Project Zero) in

order to enrich student learning with deeper understandings, AND making the learning more

accessible through differentiation (12 steak knives come with it!) Wear something comfortable,

as we will try out a few activities on the journey. Your takeaway will be an English Concept Unit

of work to trial with primary students or adapt to your own classroom, whatever THAT looks like!

Sue McIntosh commenced her Primary School teaching career in the late 70s and after developing a whole

school drama program, as well as producing K-6 performances at her first placement, she was invited to join

a Demonstration School as the onsite Drama ‘expert’. Working closely with several tertiary institutions Sue

devised drama programmes, in-service courses, trialling drama as a teaching method in the primary arena and

as a member of the then Educational Drama Association (EDA) was a Drama Reference teacher for the Northern

Sydney region, working collaboratively with chief protagonists of the time on the ‘new’ Drama curriculum

writing party. As well as her teaching degree Sue has a Post Graduate Diploma in the Expressive Arts from USyd

with a major in Dramatic Process. After an interlude in Corporate PD Sue returned to teaching in 2012 with an

undying passion for the subject which sees her promoting the same ideals of the 70’s – Drama as a subject in its

own right and drama as a method. Sue is biblical about spreading the word on her passion – DRAMA!

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Session 5


A5 Dealing with dragons: a dramatic imaginaryDr Madonna Stinson: Griffith University

This practical, active and engaging workshop uses the book You’ve Got Dragons, by Kathryn

Cave and Nick Maland, as a stepping off point to explore issues of dealing with personal

challenges, and facing your fears. The workshop will be suitable for primary years 2 to 4, but

may be adapted to other year levels. Madonna will explain the process of planning for rich

drama experiences, when using picture books as an impetus. “You ignore them and you run

away from them and you pretend they’re not dragons and you shout at them and you don’t

want to turn out the light and you pay attention to them and you tell them jokes and you can’t

think of anything else and then …”

Dr Madonna Stinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies for the Arts, Education

and Law Academic Group, Griffith University. Her research and teaching concentrates on creative approaches to

curriculum and pedagogies, especially drama, oracy, and language learning. Madonna has worked as a primary

and early years teacher, a secondary Head of Performing Arts, a curriculum writer, an artistic director, an actor

and playwright before becoming an academic. Most recently Madonna worked as a Chief Investigator on Age

Appropriate Pedagogies for the Department of Education and Training, Queensland (2015-2016), and is currently

working on a 3-year teaching-artist project in a Brisbane secondary school with a high proportion of students

from asylum-seeking backgrounds. Madonna is a life member of Drama Queensland.

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Session 6


A6 Using Drama Pedagogy to Enhance Literacy LearningJohn Nicholas Saunders : Sydney Theatre Company

This workshop will explore practical ways of using Drama pedagogy to improve student literacy

in the primary and middle years of schooling and is based on the methodology used in the School

Drama program developed by Sydney Theatre Company and the University of Sydney. Research

into this approach has illustrated positive shifts in student literacy outcomes (particularly in the

areas of comprehension and inference, confidence in oracy, descriptive language and creative/

imaginative writing) as well as increases in student confidence, motivation, school engagement

and empathy.

John Nicholas Saunders B.CI, B.Ed, M.Ed (Research) is a former secondary school teacher and the current

Education Manager at Sydney Theatre Company. John has extensive experience in Arts Education and has held

positions as a senior curriculum writer with the Queensland Studies Authority, Head of Department: The Arts

at Southern Cross Catholic College; Board member of Playlab Press, Associate Academic at Australian Catholic

University, President of Drama NSW and Drama QLD, Education Consultant to the Brisbane Festival and guest

lecturer at the University of Sydney.

He currently holds positions as: President of Drama Australia; Chair of Australian Major Performing Arts Group

(AMPAG) Education Network; Drama representative to the National Advocates for Arts Education and Drama

Mentor to ACARA.

In 2016 he co-authored The School Drama Book: Drama, Literature & Literacy In The Creative Classroom with is

colleague, Professor Robyn Ewing. John is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney where he is also

completing his PhD exploring the impact of drama-based pedagogy on English and literacy learning.

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DRAMA NSW CONFERENCE TEAM 2018Tamara Sweetman – Conference Co-Convenor

Lisa Mumford – Conference Co-Convenor

Jessica Chilton

Emma Hughes

Ebony Keys

Tahnae Luke

Anna-Lea Russo

Kelly Young

DRAMA NSW PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CONVENORS 2018Daniel Dunlop

Tahnae Luke

Lisa Mumford

Anna-Lea Russo

Victoria Stephenson

Tamara Sweetman

Kelly Young

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SUPPORT TEAM 2018Jo George

Ebony Keys

Ellen Osborne

[email protected]

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DRAMA NSW COMMITTEE 2018

Kelly Young – President

Tamara Sweetman – Vice President

(Professional Learning)

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TEAM

Nadia Emery

Jo George

Brendan Laurence

Lisa Mumford

Victoria Stephenson – Vice President

(Communications)

COMMUNICATIONS TEAM

Emma Hughes

Anna – Lea Russo

Josephine Spinks

Ebony Keys – Vice President (Membership)

MEMBERSHIP TEAM

Daniel Dunlop

Ellen Osbourne

Natasha Beaumont – Vice President (Business

and Finance and DALO)

TRADE TEAM

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