Saturday, July 17, 2010

Saturday, July 17

Where Have You Traveled?

For the closing activities, Dr. Taylor led the group in a series of reflective exercises under a title he nicked from Dorothy Heathcote, "Where have you traveled?"

1. The students were asked to recreate moments from the name game that I led them in on the first day. They had to remember where they stood in the circle and recreate their movements. Dr. Taylor worked with just a few students at a time. After they presented their initial word and movement combination, he asked them to think of a new word to describe how they feel at the close of the program and add a new movement to accompany it.

2. With the last group of students, Dr. Taylor asked them to create an essence machine of words and movements that evoked how they felt at the end of the program. This image was their work:


2. Dr. Taylor broke the group into three and have them about thirty minutes in which to create a short performance piece that summed up their experiences during the study abroad program. The pieces were to






3. The final request from Dr. Taylor involved suggestions for the future. Among them were:

- modeling process drama for the upper grades/secondary school
- as the work with Judith involved intense community building, perhaps one day could come earlier in the program
- as the school groups are isolated from one another, some organized time should be dedicated to sharing experiences with the whole group
- a suggestion was made that students formally write up some of their experiences and present them as a submission to RiDE

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