This free online teaching course explains how creative and educational drama in preschool drives childhood development.

This teaching course is designed to give you a better understanding of drama's importance and value in preschool education. We discuss drama and its history and compare various types of play in detail. We then outline creative drama's features, aims and essential components: the group, the place, the subject and the leader. The course then links these lessons to childhood education and development to help you understand how creative drama can improve the preschool environment.

We explain how creative drama can be harnessed to develop children's skills, including phonological awareness. The course explores the relationship between play, art and self-regulation in preschool education. We show you how games benefit mental schema development in childhood. We then discuss how artistic activities can help children to develop social skills in preschool. The course discusses how drama affects phonological awareness, techniques, features and knowledge as children learn to work with sounds in spoken language.

The course then describes some activities that are beneficial to a child's development. We lay out the fundamentals of basic preschool educational drama and show you how to develop and support children through fun plays based on rote learning. We provide the skills required to help children develop their language, social and cognitive skills. This course is ideal for any preschool teachers, parents or anyone who works with children, including babysitters. Sign up to learn how to inspire young minds with creative and educational drama to encourage childhood development.