Drama for Challenging Behaviour

INSET: DRAMA FOR CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2010, 10.00AM to 4.00PM VENUE: THE FORUM, BLOOMSBURY BAPTIST CHURCH COST: £75 PER TEACHER REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCH PROVIDED

Course leader: Christopher Davies, Artistic Director of Bamboozle, a theatre company that works exclusively with young people who have special needs (www.bamboozletheatre.co.uk) Doing drama with students who have challenging behaviours throws up some interesting challenges of its own! Bamboozle Theatre Company’s experience in working with many different SEN groups who have what are described as challenging behaviours has led them to develop drama strategies that enable the students to focus on the drama work.

Suitable for teachers and support staff who work: • • • •

in MLD & EBD Schools with students on the autistic spectrum in PRUs – Pupil Referral Units with any kind of very challenging behaviour

The course will focus on three areas: 1. Ways to set up the drama experience to take into account the challenges within the group 2. How to modify drama ideas to accommodate challenging behaviour 3. The importance of our language and what we can do and say to increase our chances of engaging the group in drama activities The course will: • • • • • • • •

demonstrate ways of entering the room or studio which maintain control explore ideas to tempt and engage students who do not readily join in explain how Bamboozle’s methodology can be used to reduce potential conflict enable you to consider ways that we can increase our chances of staying in control of the drama work demonstrate the power and effect of the language we use demonstrate a range of practical ideas that you can take back to your classroom to use immediately show how you can use everyday objects to create dramatic tension leave you excited and enthusiastic about the many possibilities that working in this way provides

About the course leader Christopher Davies worked as a primary teacher for 13 years before a year’s secondment doing an Advanced Certificate in Speech and Drama at The Central School of Speech and Drama. In 1986 he joined the Leicestershire Drama Advisory Service where he ran courses for teachers, worked in special schools and set up youth theatres for students with learning difficulties. He has tutored on Leicester University School of Education’s MA drama course, run teachers’ courses across the East Midlands, Isle of Man and for The National Theatre. As a theatre director he has directed on the London Fringe, for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and touring productions to Berlin and St Petersburg.

In 1994 he became the co-artistic director of Bamboozle Theatre Company.

He is a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). His passions include engaging with students in a creative setting, passing on skills to teachers and other artists and developing Bamboozle into one of the leading companies in the country. He is particularly interested in developing the massive potential of NLP and disability and how the communication strategies that NLP uses enables us to connect with students more quickly and more effectively.

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE ON DRAMA FOR CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR, PLEASE COMPLETE THE INFORMATION BELOW AND FAX TO 020 7632 4111 or email jo@mousetrap.org.uk Name: ______________________________ School: __________________________________ Telephone: __________________________ Mobile: __________________________________ Email: _________________________________________________________________________ What are the special needs of the pupils in your school? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ What subject(s) do you teach? _____________________________________________________ Do you have any particular areas you would like to focus on during the day? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________

VENUE DETAILS The Forum, 4th Floor, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church 235 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2H 8EP

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church is situated at the edge of Covent Garden, close to the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue.

Tubes and buses The nearest underground stations are Tottenham Court Road (Northern and Central lines) and Holborn or Covent Garden (Piccadilly line). Leicester Square tube station is a five minute walk to the south. Many bus services pass close by along New Oxford Street.

Car parking The nearest car parking is on Bloomsbury Square, Museum Street and Great Russell Street.

There are meters on the surrounding streets. For help with parking, see the NCP website, www.ncp.co.uk/ and Westminster Council website, www.westminster.gov.uk