Teaching Teachers with Theater!: Performance Training & Tactics for Classroom Teachers

ISBN-13: 9781433156977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Jim Senti

Opis

Teaching Teachers With Theater! Performance Training & Tactics For Classroom Teachers explores classroom performance challenges K-12 teachers face in their day to day and how the practice of certain theater techniques used to train actors can improve the teacher's student engagement and connection.

Recenzje

"In Teaching Teachers With Theater!: Performance Training & Tactics for Classroom Teachers, actor and educator Jim Senti encourages teachers to embrace a performative approach to teaching by focusing on key elements such as acute observation, the creation of an environment of trust, compassion and courage, and what the playwright Anton Chekov called 'tons and tons of love.'" -Louis Fantasia, MFA, writer and director

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction: How Theater Can Make More Compassionate Teachers - Part I: Performance Training - Practicing Observation & Empathy - Practicing Positive Reinforcement and Dealing With Surprises - Practicing How to Tell a Story - Practicing Strong Physicality and Voice - Part II: Classroom Practices, Creating - Creating Comfortable Groups - Creating Surprises! - Creating Discussion - Conclusion: Putting It All Together - Appendix - Index.

O autorze

Jim Senti earned his MFA from the Moscow Art Theatre School in affiliation with Harvard University and the American Repertory Theater. He is currently a lecturer of performance in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is a professional actor and theater maker.