Soft Skills, The Tangible Value of the Drama Curriculum
Created by Matt Webster
This course is about the fact that so-called soft skills are sought after and highly valued in professional work environments, educational settings, and in everyday social interactions. They're valuable life skills, but we can't always identify these skills within a standard educational setting, and yet, they are incredibly useful in education and beyond. That's why it's important to be able to identify these soft skills in the classroom and in the educational process and to recognize that these soft skills are being taught every day in the drama curriculum. We need to concentrate our efforts into making sure that these skills are identified and utilized within our classrooms. They are built into every arts curriculum a school offers, especially the theater arts.
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0Module 0Introduction6:50 FREE PREVIEWThis module introduces the course and gives an outline as to how the modules will help identify those soft skills and where we find them in the theater curriculum.
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1Module 1Soft Skills vs Hard Skills7:43 FREE PREVIEWThis module is an examination of the difference between soft skills and hard skills and the places in the curriculum where these different skills are taught.
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2Module 2Standards and Requirements in the Drama Classroom7:31 LockedThis modules looks at educational standards and requirements in the theater arts curriculum and how those standards are connected to soft skills.
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3Module 3Teaching vs. Learning19:16 LockedThis module is an examination of some specific drama classroom activities and the understanding of how those activities teach soft skills.
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4Module 4Identification and Advocacy5:13 LockedThis module talks about why it's important to present the soft skills we teach to administrators and how it benefits our programs.
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5Module 5Wrap Up2:26 LockedThis module wraps up the course.
Standards Addressed
Grade 6 - Creating and Presenting
Grade 7 - Reflecting, Responding and Analyzing
- B2.1 construct personal interpretations of drama works, connecting drama issues and themes to their own and others’ ideas, feelings, and experiences
- B2.2 analyse and describe, using drama terminology, how drama elements are used to communicate meaning in a variety of drama works and shared drama experiences
Grade 7 - Creating and Presenting
Grades 9 & 10 - Foundations - Responsible Practices
Grades 9 & 10 - Foundations - Context and Influences
Grades 9 & 10 - Reflecting, Responding and Analyzing - Connections Beyond the Classroom
Grades 9 & 10 - Reflecting, Responding and Analyzing - Drama and Society
Grades 9 & 10 - Creating and Presenting - Elements and Conventions
Grades 9 & 10 - Creating and Presenting - The Creative Process
Grade 11 - Reflecting, Responding and Analyzing - The Critical Analysis Process
Grade 11 - Creating and Presenting - Elements and Conventions
Grade 11 - Creating and Presenting - The Creative Process
Grade 12 - Foundations - Responsible Practices
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