Five-session story drama training program for preschool instructional staff¶

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Description¶

The intervention began with five 2-hour story drama training sessions delivered over five weeks to the entire instructional staff, using resources derived from Carleton's story drama lesson plans for special needs classrooms. Sessions covered introduction to story dramas, modeled lesson plans with staff as students, and theater techniques with a professional actor. The article states "Five 2-hour story drama lesson training sessions were developed and delivered over a 5-week period to the entire instructional staff".

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

All instructional staff attend the training sessions
Lesson planning templates and lesson plans for training purposes

Constraints¶

No data was collected during the training sessions; training was based on materials developed for non-deaf children

Target Learners¶

preschool instructional staff teaching deaf children

Learning Goals¶

story drama delivery skills
theater techniques
bimodal bilingual lesson planning

Claims¶

Three-part theoretical framework linking deaf ontologies, axiologies, and epistemologies to ocularcentrism, multimodality, and interactivity in story drama pedagogy

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Weber Joanne, Enwedo Jah-Amaka, Benkohila Amel, Kurylowich Nyla, Hillcox Brenda, Olson Kirsten. (2026). Story dramas: an exploratory study toward a deaf-led arts-integration model. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag015

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`title`	`Five-session story drama training program for preschool instructional staff`
`description`	`The intervention began with five 2-hour story drama training sessions delivered over five weeks to the entire instructional staff, using resources derived from Carleton's story drama lesson plans for special needs cla...`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-11-04`
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`sources`	1 — `weber-joanne-2026`

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