What aptitudes can I develop in tutorials?

There is a common view that suggests drama encourages students to be more confident and this is certainly true if individuals exert a conscientious effort to develop their potential during practical activities. Your confidence is likely to increase in tutorials when you begin to master various skills and when you learn how to recognise and embrace personal challenges in different activities. While each person’s abilities and interests are unique, you may choose to set yourself challenges or exercise various aptitudes during various activities. By trying to develop the following aptitudes, you are likely to increase your confidence, enhance your learning and your enjoyment of practical tutorials:

• Learning how to critically analyse beliefs, arguments
• Learning how to identify beliefs and attitudes that may be inhibiting
• Learning how your experiences and beliefs can inform your reading of texts and your performance of actions
• Learning how to debate and defend different opinions, choices and activities
• Learning how to recognise when performance choices work effectively
• Learning how to identify elements of a text or performance that can be developed
• Learning how to identify the performance strengths of others
• Learning how to identify and develop your own performance strengths
• Learning how to learn from mistakes
• Learning how to extend your abilities and interests
• Learning how to commit yourself to the choices and actions you make in a performance
• Learning how to embrace possibilities positively and confidently
• Learning how to feel and communicate joy while experimenting with ideas as well as performing routine tasks
• Learning how to make connections between drama and different subject areas