FORUM THEATRE IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS

Abstract

In order for the training to be more successful than usual, it is necessary to apply innovative methods and techniques which should turn learning from a terribly excruciating and frustrating process to an attractive, funny and exciting one and also make future teachers successful. Future teachers must have communication and game competence skills, which are important components of their professional training. The communication teacher-student relationship is mostly speaking. It improves interpersonal relationships but it is also capable of destroying them.
The possibilities of the forum theater for the overall development of the personality, creative freedom and moral level are laid in the humanities of universities.
Forum Theater is a method that allows you to illustrate various options, right decisions or wrong steps. This method provides an additional set of skills, increased sensitivity, additional achievements.
With forum theater students can find solutions that empower them to cope with their own problems. Students are given a case study and they must solve the problem themselves. A lesson is provided that demonstrates to students what could be done by an unkept rule, improperly placed accent or comma, incorrectly used word, or incorrect term explanation. Students themselves find their mistakes and find out the right answer. In the form of a game /forum theatrе/ students focus on the importance of various problems. Forum Theater is a method of work that teaches students how to play an active role in their community and find solutions to their life problems. It allows everyone to go on the stage and show his/her attitude to a particular problem situation. Thus, students become active participants in the life of their community, not just witnesses to the problem. They perform their ideas and solutions to the problem and thus they themselves participate in the anticipated change. In an attractive way, the Forum Theater encourages public debates on the problem they have identified as important and it also encourages students’ initiative to offer options for its solution.
Through the forum theater the educational effect of the theater - the transformation is achieved. The main advantage of the forum theater method is the recreation in a performance of problems, specific to the particular environment. It enables students to test and implement different real-time strategies. Participants change their behavior from negative to positive and show the audience that the change is possible. The basis of the forum theater is interpretation and improvisation. This educational-theatrical method does not provide ready-made text to be learned and followed by the participants. A creative and immediate process of creation is taking place. An atmosphere is created in which the participants work and know that their ideas, opinions, actions and creative products are valuable and important.