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BOOK OF THE MONTH
Acting Lessons for Teachers: Using Classroom Performance Skills written by Robert Tauber and Cathy Sargent Mester is a book designed to instruct teachers on how to bring humour and other aspects of performance into their classrooms to better engage the student.
The authors propose that bringing performance into the classroom will simulate enthusiastic teaching and the authors offer research that supports the positive impact of enthusiasm on learning. The authors comment that enthusiasm in the classroom is not just about being an enthusiastic person, but to use teaching techniques/strategies that will convey enthusiasm to the class. Teaching techniques such as animation in body (facial expressions, eye contact and gestures), the quality of one’s speaking voice, the use of humour, working with props and using the classroom space to its fullest potential. This book even has a chapter on how to use performance skills to handle discipline problems when and if they occur.
The evaluation form that the University of Manitoba uses to evaluate teaching (SEEQ or Student Evaluation of Educational Quality) asks students to rate a teacher’s enthusiasm, so this book may serve as a resource for helping to improve your student ratings in that area.