The Travelling Stage offers students an opportunity to participate in dance, drama, music, and wellness workshops alongside established performing artists. Programs available in French or English, delivered in-person, via live synchronous online learning, and through asynchronous learning. For K-12 schools across Canada! Read more to learn how you can organize your one-time visit, or multi-visit field trip and/or program.
With the new school year beginning this week, CODE is releasing our Drama and Dance - Creative Community in the Time of COVID Version 2.0 to all of our members and community.
A summary of our Virtual Fireside Chats are now available!
2021-01-07_code_fireside_chat_-_secondary_dance.pdf
2021-01-07_code_fireside_chat_-_secondary_drama.pdf
An Invitation to play: Using Fairy Tales to Build Early Literacy Skills
Read a loud The Story of the Three Little Pigs
Build belief through movement: Invite students to the carpet to explore how various animals might move using guided imagery: Can you show me how a pig or wolf might move? How might your animal sleep, eat or play?
Role Play: Ask students to consider what questions they might have for the wolf. What do they still want to know about this story? In role as the wolf, teacher can answer the questions generated by the class.
Action and Exploration: Retell the story with students, having them play the part of the wolf. In small groups, ask the students to create a dramatic retelling of the story. Provide masks, puppets, costumes etc. and invite students to use the materials to retell the story.
Help! I'm going to be away and I teach DRAMA!
CODE Secretary Clyre Lyndley published an article in the Spring 2015 edition of ETFO Voice.
The CODE Management Board, along with the Elementary Inquiry-based Learning writing team, is meeting this weekend at Kempenfelt Conference Centre in Barrie.
The Ministry of Education, in partnership with CODE, has developed a facilitator's guide for teachers based on the Grade 4 Drama and Social Studies lesson "Financial Literacy and Inequities in Distribution of Wealth." Visit the Edugains site to access this resource and view additional Financial Literacy videos and guides.
This amazing video from the Playwrights Guild of Canada features educators, students and arts advocates speaking about the power of Canadian plays in the classroom. To find out more about what benefits you receive from the PGC with your CODE membership, visit CODE Benefits.
The Drama for Learning and Creativity initiative, or D4LC, is an innovative program operating in the UK and bring implemented by other countries across the globe. At this year's CODE conference, Patrice Baldwin, President of National Drama UK and Chair of IDEA, premiered this video so that Ontario teachers could learn about ways in which drama in making its way into all aspects of the elementary curriculum thanks to D4LC. . .