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Drama Enhances Learning by Tapping Into the Power of Your Students Imagination

Explore interactive ways to help students enhance their play-going experiences and expand their interactive role-playing and problem-solving work you can do with your students.  Learn how to use drama skills to explore differing points of view from inside the safe drama space you help them create.

For more information contact Mary Pratt Cooney at: (313) 577-0789

Applied Theatre: An Inquiry-based Approach to Teaching

Learning Through Drama Supports:
Inquiry-based learning that results in reflective writing
Thematic-based Instruction
Cross-Curricular Instruction
Higher level Thinking skills
Critical thinking
Multicultural and diversity education
Character/moral development
Global Citizenship

These services are provided by Department of Theatre faculty member Mary Pratt Conney, PhD, who specializes in Drama in Education.  She has conducted workshops, and taught and worked as a drama consultant in the Detroit Public Schools, and Oakland, Wayne, Macomb and Washtenaw county schools. She has taught at Eastern Michigan University and presented at numerous conferences here and abroad.