SPICE up your ELT Classrooms: How Drama Does It!

Abstract:

Drama is the SPICE of ELT (Hillyard 2016) but HOW is it? It’s relatively easy to talk about the theory of this approach but much harder to show how to translate that theory into real practice in real classrooms. This presentation will define what the acronym SPICE stands for and then go on to show examples of real practice for each of the letters in turn. Theory will be kept short while the examples of practice will be given prominence. Finally, the teachers will leave with an understanding of HOW to put a gentle sprinkling or hot piquant dollop of SPICE into their English lessons whatever the age, the ability or the level of their students. Come dressed suitably, ready to experience the engaging value of Creative Activities for Inclusive, Motivating and Innovative Classrooms!

About the Speaker:

Susan Hillyard has work experience in seventeen countries as a teacher, Head of Department, Director, speaker, webinar presenter, workshop facilitator, consultant, researcher, Professor, author and on-line tutor. She was Prof. Language IV in Lenguas Vivas and UTN Teacher Training Colleges, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has co-authored a Resource Book for Teachers Global Issues for OUP and also TDI-TKT On-line Course for Pearson, New York, and published a book with Helbling English through Drama. She has worked with The Performers, a Theatre in Education troupe, based in Buenos Aires, as diction teacher and as an adviser. Former Coordinator, English in Action, Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, training 20 teachers through blended learning courses to teach English through Drama in Special Education. She is a now a graduated Ambassador, coach and facilitator for the Global Play Brigade and a founding member of the Creative Revolution. She has been studying Social Therapy with the ESI International Class online in New York. Founder and Director of SHELTA, Susan Hillyard’s English Language Teachers’ Academy.