ACTIVATING METHODS – methods used in working with a child, enabling learning by doing and experiencing. Students who actively participate in classes achieve better academic results and are more open to knowledge. Activating methods allow you to assimilate new messages more easily, develop creative thinking, broaden interests, serve the development of communication and cooperation in a group, and also have a positive effect on emotional development.
BETI STRAUSS' METHOD OF ACTIVE LISTENING TO MUSIC
The method of active listening to music – students listening to a piece of music perform a variety of activities (listening, playing, dancing, singing with elements of pantomime or drama, performing art works) according to the teacher's instructions. Children actively enter into various roles (conductor, music) using props (instruments, sticks, scarves). Classes have a positive effect on development, trigger joy, commitment, stimulate sound imagination, develop musical interests.
THE METHOD OF MOVEMENT STORYTELLING J. C. THULIN
The teacher reads a fairy tale or legend, and the students "tell" its content with the help of movement. Using only hearing and imagination, they play the characters and move to another world.
THE METHOD OF DEVELOPING MOTION W. SHERBORNE
The method involves the use of movement developing awareness of one's own body, awareness of space (acting in it, as well as sharing it with others). The method is often used in classes with intellectually disabled, hyperactive, aggressive and fearful students. Classes in the form of fun allow you to achieve success during exercises. Movement exercises have been divided into areas: exercises leading to getting to know your own body, exercises to gain self-confidence and a sense of security in the environment, exercises to facilitate establishing contact and cooperation with your partner and group (relationship "with", relationship "against", relationship "together"), creative exercises (e.g. exercises with music in the form of dance).
THE METHOD OF CREATIVE THINKING J. OSBORNE – BRAINSTORMING
The method used in troubleshooting. Participants submit their ideas, which are subject to assessment and verification in terms of suitability for work only after the end of applications.
FINGER – PAINTING METHOD
For classes, it is enough to prepare paints in six colors and paper. The method of painting with ten fingers allows you to overcome fears, frees you from inhibitions, strengthens faith in your own abilities and stimulates creative expression.
THE METHOD OF A GOOD START DEVELOPED BY M.BOGDANOWICZ
A method improving analyzers: visual, auditory and kinesthetic – movement, lateralization and orientation in the scheme of one's own body, affecting the development of emotions, social behavior and creative activity. Three elements play an important role: visual (graphic sign), auditory (song) and motor (reproduction of graphic signs according to the rhythm of the song). Students can create their own texts, music or patterns.
STORY CUBE – CREATIVE STORIES
Story Cubes – 9 cubes with a different set of illustrations on each wall. Cubes are used during classes, e.g. to solve problems, storytelling, literary repetitions. Story Cube stimulate creative thinking and imagination.
PARATHEATRICAL TECHNIQUES:
ROLE CHANGE TECHNIQUE
A technique in which the student plays a role in enabling new experiences (e.g., a student with problems in social interaction takes on the role of teacher and the teacher takes on the role of child).
DRAMA
Drama is about "empathizing" with a fictional character and the situation in which the character finds himself. Students have the opportunity to experience and experience situations they have never been in before. They have the opportunity to get to know themselves in a specific reality, learn the right assessment of values, adopt the correct social attitude, sensitize to the harm of others, and develop creatively both verbally and non-verbally. Classes teach cooperation in a group and mutual acceptance.
PANTOMIME
Pantomime is a combination of movement, gesture and facial expressions (the actor does not use his voice). It allows you to define your emotions and feelings.
FINGER THEATRE
Theater in which the student independently draws the heads of various characters on his own fingers, and then presents specific situations (e.g. from school, from home, from a fairy tale).
PUPPET THEATRE
A theatre in which students make puppets themselves and then use them in performance (they become directors, set designers). The theatre often touches upon the subject of feelings, emotions, motives for action.
THEATRE OF CHOICE
The teacher and students jointly determine the theme of the theater. The host chooses one child and assigns him a role. The child chooses the other actors on his own. Then they distribute roles together and plan the course of the game. The selection theatre integrates the group.
Magdalena Kaczor
