29/02/2016 Monday and Tuesday
Yvonne brought 12 dressed puppets from home to use in class. She has been busy making 4 more as some of the classes are very large (40 students).
The work with the puppets has ranged from workshops where the puppets were used to consider identity and belonging in two Social Psychology classses to presenting a play to raise issues round fair trade. The play, “Paying the Cost”, was written specially by Yvonne for a Humanities class and coincided with the beginning of Fair Trade Fortnight.
The use of puppets has gone down very well with teachers intending to make more use of them in their classes both for raising issues, stimulating discussions. This and the methodologies we have been using have helped to develop and improve interpersonal relationships in the classroom.