Satisfaction of the demands of primary forms pupils in the theatrical activities

The pupils of primary forms attend theatrical clubs and periods having different demands, interests, views and attitudes. There are a lot of educational problems the pupils encounter while attending theatrical clubs and periods. At the beginning of the course they are active, receptive, curious and later after having come across some problems they lose their interest in theatrical activities. So having a purpose becomes especially important as pupils educate themselves and the teacher only helps to improve them. While trying to achieve motivated, meaningful education every teacher must know the interests of pupils and their likes and dislikes. For this reason the demands of the primary forms pupils were searched in this work. The most of the attention was devoted to cognitive, social and communicative demands, the causes of their occurrence, the purposes of their development and which of them motivate the primary pupils most of all in the theatrical activities. The research was carried out involving the primary pupils of six Alytus primary schools ( Senamiestis, Drevinukas, Dzūkija, Putinai, Panemunė and Volungė Schools). The questionnaire was made of 22 questions, it was filled in by 173 primary pupils who participate in theatrical activities. The hypothesis that primary pupils like playing theatrical games, like watching their friends perform and learn from them was confirmed. We were assured that primary pupils highly value the demand of communication, so working in big groups during the theatrical periods or clubs is very important. The mostly motivating factor was proved to be the performance in front of their parents and family members, in front of their teachers and friends. As the research showed primary pupils are very creative and want to be noticed and estimated. For them it is very important to have the final goal of the theatrical activity and it has to be a performance with the help of which the pupil can disclose his or her creative abilities and show his inside. Learning theatrical performing this way makes the pupil’s personality become mature as the pupil is being educated through deliberate understanding of his own experience.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta