Position Mapping

Position Mapping is a simple activity where students position themselves in proximity to a chair (or other item) in correspondence with how comfortable they feel with a certain topic and then additionally, students create a tableaux to represent how they feel about that concept. In our class, we did this activity relating to how we feel about teaching drama. It was very interesting to see the variety of feelings and confidence levels present in our class. Some people (like myself) were close to the chair and excited, whereas others were almost out the door. I think an activity like this could be extremely beneficial as a diagnostic activity for any subject because it provides a quick visual of where your students stand before even beginning a lesson/unit. It could also be interesting to do this activity both before and after a lesson/unit to see how students' positions change. When participating in this activity, I really appreciated how we were asked whether we were comfortable to share and that we were given a heads up before being asked to share. I think this is incredibly important because we want our students to feel safe and comfortable in our class, so given them the right to pass if they are uncomfortable with something is essential.

[January 23, 2018] Position Mapping [Photograph]