My Ideal Classroom by Lora
Loraof Vincennes's entry into Varsity Tutor's October 2014 scholarship contest
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My Ideal Classroom by Lora - October 2014 Scholarship Essay
My ideal classroom would be considered definitely more unique than most; mine is a theater. An empty theater has so much potential. Potential for color, light, texture, sound, shape, and emotion. Not only can it teach me about the design and performing aspect of the arts, however, the space allows for learning about history, math, and even science.
Learning about design and art and in a theater is what mostly one would expect to learn in a theater. In the creation of a set, you have to know how certain colors look under different colors of light and what kind of mood you want to put forth to your audience. The script of a show teaches students like me the emotion of characters and their reasoning. A Psychology or Sociology lesson of sorts.
What a lot of people do not realize is how you can learn about history, math or science in a theater. A script can sometimes bring an era of culture along with it. With a script in hand, I can learn more about a period of time than if I were in a classroom taking down notes. Plus, in the theater I learn to empathize with the people of the time and I practically live through their history and bring it to life.
The scene shop in the theater is where I can learn practical math. I learn how long something needs to be and I can build sets with my own hands. This helps those who are the hands-on type of learners. They can see why the slope of the piece of wood is important, or they can understand why formulas to find area work. That is more valuable to me than finding the limit of a function.
I learn science in the theater anytime fog needs to be used onstage. I learn how to handle the dry ice to create the effect that we are wanting onstage. It's my own personal chemistry lesson.
I can learn practically every subject in a theater- and I learn it in the most pleasant way possible. In a way that I actually retain the information, not just so I can take a test and get a grade. That's why the theater is my ideal classroom.
