Acting Lessons for Teachers : Using Performance Skills in the Classroom

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 entertaining and effective manual for all levels of teachers, sure to inspire clever and effective new ways of teaching and learning.