What does a teacher do about a student who won participate or one who persists in disrupting the drama?
Within a dramatic situation, students and teacher are simultaneously actor and audience, participant and spectator. In an episode of a drama in which the whole group is working, it is important for the teacher to remember that some students will be more active “participants” and some more clearly “spectators” than others (as they may be in real life). The students who exhibits some passivity in these situations is not necessarily not engaged in the drama. When structuring a work, it is important to include a number of different groupings and a variety of strategies to ensure that all students will discover comfortable ways of working within the drama. If a student seems to be intentionally interrupting a drama to the extent that it is difficult for the others to sustain their belief, it is probably best to call a temporary halt to the work and discuss the disruption with the whole group. Many of the students will be aware of the problem and peer pressure may well contribute to a soluti
