Anyone For Top Class?

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Dec 212011
 

Audition invitation letters for 2012 Top Class Drama and Theatre Studies, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s concerts showcasing the very best performance exams from the 2011 academic year, were received yesterday (Tuesday). In the rush up to Christmas, some letters may also be received Wednesday, of course. These invitations are posted only to students receiving a perfect score A+ in their exam. Anyone have students in your 2011 class who received an invite? Well done if you did! If you’re a student reading this post who received an invitation, hey throw up a comment and tell the world, ’cause they are damn hard to get!

Year 12 Drama and Theatre Studies Grades 2011

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Dec 162011
 

For those of you teaching in Victoria, Australia, today was the day our Year 12 students received their final grades for their Victorian Certificate of Education in Drama and Theatre Studies.

Just wondering how teachers went with their students’ grades this year? The solo performance exam in Drama is always a tricky beast in which to predict or anticipate grades and often causes confusion among the drama teaching fraternity. Of course, students always want to do well in this task, also. Add to this what I have learned in recent years in particular … never underestimate the power of the written exam and its contribution to a student’s final study score in both these subjects, regardless of its published weighting.

If your students did well, here’s the spot to tell the world (no names or schools, please)!

Performance Exams – Good Luck!

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Oct 182011
 

All the best to everyone in Melbourne and regional Victoria with their students undertaking solo performance exams in Year 12 Drama and monologue performance exams in Year 12 Theatre Studies.

It is a stressful time of year for both teachers and students of these disciplines. It is also an emotional time, as students gear up for their creative triumphs (or not!) in the exam room.

These performance exams are tough tasks even for the most experienced and capable of teachers. While ‘scary’ may be an appropriate description if you are a graduate teacher with students doing these exams. But the rewards are many and the deep knowledge gained from undertaking these tasks is very worthwhile, indeed.

2011 Short Solo Performance Characters

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Aug 052011
 

On an annual basis, my Year 12 Drama class performs a short solo performance character for assessment. It is a prescribed 1-2 minute performance that requires more effort in the editing of original material to get it under the maximum time limit, than it does in the creation of material. My students are given the task of choosing a character belonging to a subculture in society, historical or present day. We usually have a wonderful array of characters and this is without doubt one of the most popular assessment tasks for students in six years of drama curriculum at my school. This year’s character choices were:

Once costumes, props and even make-up  enter the scene, this task is a blast! It is always a good example in drama of how enthusiasm leads to engagement. When you have a group of students who believe they completely own their work and are proud of it, sometimes the grades just don’t matter at all.

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