Acting Lessons for Teachers: Using Performance Skills in the Classroom Second Edition

by Cathy Sargent Mester, Robert T. Tauber, Cathy S. Mester

Book Overview

Acting Lessons for Teachers presents a solid theoretical foundation for the pedagogical benefits of enthusiastic teaching. Simply put, students are more engaged, misbehave less, and learn better from teachers who teach enthusiastically. A teacher's enthusiasm for his or her subject matter can be contagious. Since the dynamic of the classroom is similar to that of the stage in terms of speaker-listener relationships, the acting craft offers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027599192X
• ISBN13: 9780275991920
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"