The Creative Process as it Applies to Drama and Dance
The creative process, as defined by the Ontario Curriculum, is a flexible approach to learning and exploring the arts. It applies to any creative endeavour such as music, visual arts, dance, media arts, drama, or language arts. There are 8 steps/stages that are continually being revised through feedback. The diagram below outlines the stages, and the dotted arrow indicates the cyclical nature of the arts (i.e. never ending, one project informs the next).
In practice, this is a wonderful technique to encourage the incorporation of feedback and familiarize students to the idea that feedback is a good thing and shouldn't be seen as punishment. Instead, by having ongoing consultation with the teacher and peers and incorporating self-assessment, the student will produce more thoughtful work that represents more depth and understanding.
For example, in dance if students are working at a higher level of Bloom's Taxonomy (ex: creating) you can spend an extensive amount of time on the project and involve several iterations of the same piece in order to refine the work. A similar theory applies to drama and other artistic forms like visual arts, music, or language arts.
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| The Ontario Curriculum Grades 1-8: The Arts p. 20 (2009). |
In practice, this is a wonderful technique to encourage the incorporation of feedback and familiarize students to the idea that feedback is a good thing and shouldn't be seen as punishment. Instead, by having ongoing consultation with the teacher and peers and incorporating self-assessment, the student will produce more thoughtful work that represents more depth and understanding.
For example, in dance if students are working at a higher level of Bloom's Taxonomy (ex: creating) you can spend an extensive amount of time on the project and involve several iterations of the same piece in order to refine the work. A similar theory applies to drama and other artistic forms like visual arts, music, or language arts.
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