Curricular Goals...
There are numerous ways the Little Theatre of the Deaf workshops, performances, and study guide work hand in hand with the school and curricular/classroom goals, such as:For the Student:
- Furthering learning of diversity, sensitivity as well as additional perspectives on a different American culture
- Increase cultural awareness, pride and respect
- Logic Enhance organization and sequencing in story development
- Curriculum disciplines work together. Application of activity approaches to other curriculum disciplines such as social studies, history, math, natural science, etc.
- Idiom and language study increase knowledge of language richness. Use of imagination in language choices and application reinforced
- Revision, editing, practices reinforced as it applies to all the arts as well as all disciplines
- Process that engages the student helping develop self-esteem, self-discipline, cooperation, and self-motivation
- Communication of thoughts and feelings utilizing a variety of modes, giving a vastly more powerful repertoire of self-expression
- Varied communication skills employed, verbal and non-verbal
- Deduction, from what is learned to what will be explored.
- Enhancing organization and sequencing in story development. Logic
- Intrinsic value, worth learning for its own sake, providing benefits not available through any other means
- Perceiving, interpreting, understanding, and evaluating help students develop multiple capabilities for understanding
For the Group:
- Group interaction opportunity for group interaction, cooperation and group problem solving, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating
- Learn additional teamwork behaviors.
- Self-esteem as part of a group, and as an individual, application of social morals and behavior
- Respect and sensitivity for other students, their ideas, and their belongings
- Pride and accomplishment in contributing in a group, empowerment
- Performing/speaking in front of a group, poise
- Learning to adapt to other ways of thinking, working and expressing
- Self-discipline, collaboration, perseverance, strengthened
