Description
Book SynopsisTeaching Teachers With Theater!: Performance Training & Tactics for Classroom Teachers explores day-to-day classroom performance challenges K12 teachers face and how the practice of certain theater techniques used to train actors can improve a teacher's student engagement and connection. Jim Senti's work exposes K12 classroom teachers to the activities and training that will help them become a more comfortable, connective, exciting, and engaging teacher in the classroom. Teaching Teachers With Theater! defines typical challenges teachers face in the classroom. The activities in each chapter vary from how the reader can improve their body language, voice, and physicality to illustrating how developing acute observation can help train a teacher's empathy and compassion. This book also explains how improvisation games help train a teacher's ability to deal with surprises in the classroom and even offers some tips on how to tell a great story. Teaching Teachers
Trade Review
“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
Table of Contents
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.
