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July 3, 2025
Teaching & Performing: Ideas for Energizing Your Classes
- Author
- Timpson, William M. and Suzanne Burgoyne
- Publisher
- Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI
- ISBN
- 1891859439
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Foreword from the Lectern
Foreword from the Stage
Introduction
ch. 1 Planning and Performance
ch. 2 Warming Up
ch. 3 The Lecture
ch. 4 Questions, Answers, and Discussions
ch. 5 Energy, Creativity, and Spontaneity
ch. 6 The Developmental Case for Drama
ch. 7 Discovery and Drama
ch. 8 Performance Enhancing Exercises
ch. 9 Scenes for Practice, Fun, and Exploration
References with Annotations
Index
To be or not to be. That is the question. To be a teacher-performer or not to be. Authors Timpson and Burgoyne assert that teachers are inherently performers and as such, techniques from the stage enhance and expand a teacher’s ready repertoire of discipline-based content.
While teachers are trained as planners and scholars, very few are trained as performers. Using performance theory, the authors show how an educator can transform ordinary classroom experiences into occasions that attract and engage the students.
In this second edition of Teaching and Performing, the authors expand on the possibilities of using warm-up exercises, assuming roles, props, lighting, blocking, energy, concentration, and a variety of other techniques important to good theatre and good teaching. (From the Publisher)
While teachers are trained as planners and scholars, very few are trained as performers. Using performance theory, the authors show how an educator can transform ordinary classroom experiences into occasions that attract and engage the students.
In this second edition of Teaching and Performing, the authors expand on the possibilities of using warm-up exercises, assuming roles, props, lighting, blocking, energy, concentration, and a variety of other techniques important to good theatre and good teaching. (From the Publisher)