MYP 5 Theatre Teacher Led Improvisations - How systems and structure operate in the world around us- Anannya and Sukriti

Objective of the Learning Engagement

The objective of the session was to understand the way systems around us work and the nuances of those systems/structures.

Details of the Learning Engagement:

Teacher-led improvisations. Without revealing the identities of people/characters, teachers present a few situations in which how these systems and structures operate in the world around us are shown.

Meeting for a Marriage Proposal (A boy meets to-be father-in-law)
Passport Office (A lady has to get her passport renewed in Tatkal from a passport official)
Renting a home (A single woman looking for a home in Delhi meets a potential landlady)
Train (A passenger travels in a local train with a bag of food, and police personnel grabs them for the same reason)

Students list out 10 problematic things in the vignettes that they see. They also write down visible and invisible structures.

A discussion on first thoughts about who could the people in the scene be.
Who gets affected and who was affecting? Can these people fit into a system/structure?

Impact of the engagement on students and reflection as a teacher:

We felt that this exercise enabled the students to be complete outsiders and observe the situation objectively. Because we had also rehearsed the scenes, our intentions and conflict points were quite clear. The systemic issues were visible to the students which were then pointed out later in our discussion. It allowed for a space where very critical situations could be put in front of the students without taking the help of a movie/video.

- Anannya and Sukriti

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