Most of the time, teachers of other subjects might approach the music & drama teacher in a surprise and left them defensive.

Other subject teachers will want the music and drama teacher to teach certain topic to the students. However, the music & drama teacher doesn’t have any plan for those instead she already got her own lesson plans. It is not easy for her to come out with something immediately. There is no way to interrupt the planned activities of the music & drama teacher if there is no prior planning or arrangement.

To solve this problem, early planning in the school year with both teachers will solve this problem.

For example, the science teacher wants to teach the children about body parts, then the music & drama teacher found out that there’s body parts song that can be taught. At the same time, this song allow the children to do actions along with it. With early planning like this, it will ensure that children will get the best from both world.

There is also problem of getting suitable material to teach. In case there is no early planning and the other subject teachers need help from the music & drama teacher, the music & drama teacher can provide materials needed to the other subject teachers and they can use the material anyway they like to teach.

Early planning and communication is important for successful integration of drama & music across curriculum.