ABSTRACT

At this level students have gained a solid depth and breadth of playbuilding skills, knowledge and understanding. As these students will have some experience in playbuilding the teacher will develop and extend their learning. This level of playbuilding involves students taking more responsibility for their own learning and gaining more confidence to think and act laterally. Collaboration in intermediate playbuilding continues to be very important and the class must understand that it plays a pivotal role in their creating. Groups of varying sizes and abilities should be explored in intermediate playbuilding. Those occasions where the class works as a whole group should now involve further challenges to extend the students, such as adding more constraints to the context being explored or through experimenting with different aspects of form and style.