Bridging English makes teachers aware that their profession is not just teaching youngsters how to read and write well anymore, but they are required to go way beyond their normal duties. McEwan believes that a confusing 'multitude of institutional and cultural demands' are placed on the English teacher. Teacher-centered lessons were a thing of the norm during the past few centuries of education. The teacher would be the boring body that stood in front of the classroom and spoke of her knowledge and expected the students to absorb it and be prepared for testing over the material. But much research has been done to refute this old way of teaching.
Constructivism is now one of the leading teaching strategies in education today.
Constructivists strongly believe that youngsters must be involved in the learning process in order for them to truly gain knowledge about anything. Many new rationales prompt us to suggest an expanded curriculum that deliberately includes talking and listening. In simple terms, creative drama asks students to put original words and actions together in a dramatic situation. Creative drama occupies a place in the English classroom between oral language development and formal drama. Its association with the elementary language arts classrooms is well established, but many secondary English teachers feel uncomfortable about including it in their curriculum.