Wayfinding: Routes for Exploring Storytelling Through Drama

This resource focuses on teaching and learning activities for Level 1 NCEA Drama, assessment standard Drama 1.2 Level 1: Participate in creative strategies to create a drama, 91941. It focuses on the following ‘big ideas’ of the curriculum:

• Drama is influenced by whakapapa and is a way to respond to and share identity, culture, and perspectives

• Drama is a collaborative, creative process

• Drama weaves wairuatanga through storytelling, communication, and expression

Using the theme of wayfinding, this resource offers different ‘routes’ for ākonga and kaiako to take in exploring stories as the basis for drama. These routes can be followed from one stage to the next or can be used in any combination to create units of study for drama classes.
They focus on three main approaches to storytelling through drama:

• Stories of navigation in Aotearoa New Zealand history

• Personal and local stories of significance

• Ethical approaches for dramatizing the stories of other people

These resources are free to all courtesy of Networks of Expertise.

Created by Kim Snider