Teaching article
Performance feedback should concern communication choices
Review communication choices rather than personality.
Moving the puppet into view can improve what the audience understands. Discuss a specific moment like that, keeping willingness to perform publicly separate from judgements about confidence, personality or progress.
Give feedback about a visible communication choice. Avoid treating willingness to perform publicly as a measure of personal confidence or progress.
Name what helped the scene become clear
Moving the puppet into view improved the audience's understanding.
Identify a clear moment. Explain the useful choice. Suggest a revision.
Public performance is not a confidence assessment. What helped communicate the scene?
Reflect privately.
Resources
- Draw the Marionette Puppet – Creative Art Worksheet for Kids — Use the puppet drawing as a fictional character-design starting point; add the scene actions or script separately.
Further reading
Read next
- Pause an original scene where several continuations are possible
- An invented call and response needs an agreed relationship
- An imagined instrument should explain how sound is meant to arise
Explore Music, drama and expressive movement. Browse all teaching articles.