Acting Lessons For Teachers: Using Performance Skills In The Classroom; Author: Tauber, Robert T.; Author: Mester, Cathy S.; Paperback

Author: Tauber, Robert T.; Author: Mester, Cathy S.
Paperback
173 pages
Greenwood Press
ISBN: 0275948242

Teachers find themselves competing with high-powered media to win the attention and interest of students. Many are adopting a variety of performance skills to reach, hold, and convey information to a diverse and demanding audience. Tauber and Mester stress the essential qualities that make up a good teacher/actor: deep familiarity and understanding of the subject matter, use of a battery of communication skills, enthusiasm for the subject matter, and evidenced love of the art and craft of teaching/learning. Lessons taught involve the use of physical and vocal animation, classroom humor, space, teacher role-playing, props, suspense, and surprise. Each lesson contains actual examples and scripts with testimony as to their effectiveness by award-winning college faculty. An entertain