This free online teaching course explains how creative and educational drama in preschool drives childhood development. This teaching course explores the history of drama and examines the many types of play. We lay out the features and aims of creative drama and trace the relationship between play, art and self-regulation in preschool education. The course explains how to include creative drama in preschools to cultivate childhood development and encourage children to improve their social and mental skills as they learn to regulate their behavior through drama.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195497 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Summarize different types of drama in detail • Outline the goals and features of creative drama • Discuss how preschool education can benefit from creative drama • Explain the relationship between drama and play in creative drama • Summarize how art and creative drama play an important role in preschool education • Discuss the relationship between self-regulation and creative drama • Describe how education drama can be implemented in preschools • Define ‘drama’ and outline its history |
| Course Code | 5714 |

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