MehmetAli Küçükpınar 2002103952
Teachers as ‘Performers’
Since the ancient greek ,teachers are serving for the future of community. First appearence of teaching as a profession occurs in greek cities.The kings or governors of these cities thought that special people such as Platon or Aristotele could raise up the governors of future. The common point for these first teachers of world was to be wise and impressive people.
As welll as parents have expectations from teachers , techers themselves have commmon wishes to come true. What a teacher wants to impose is, basicly to show a certain way of thinking or a certain idea. To guide the the adolescent in a certain path to solve a problem, is the main concern of teaching. At that point the question arises ; how can a person guide it? By the beginning of this century teachers role as a learning guide began to turn out to be a facilitator, that arranges the learning environment. The task of teacher in 21 st century turn out to be an expert that makes students handle the knowledge.So in the classroom or in any other medium, teachers have to be more impressive and wiser than their ancient collagues.The teachers now have to catch the attention of the class. The distracting factors are increasing day by day and students are paying more attention to outside factors.So teachers should find a way of outstanding.While making a presentation or giving a lecture anyone knows a few way to catch the watcher’s eye.Such as speaking louder, using mimics etc. But the profession of teaching should employee these components in a disciplinised way. The performance of teacher should be presented as a whole. So they should make use of performing arts. The first demand of a teacher is to be heard and payed attention.So as teachers should have a good voice control such as vocals. Having a good tonning is a vital skill for a speaker. For a techer who uses his sound to control the crowd ;to have a good tonning and fluent speaking is a crucial skill… Operah singers seem to be the most efficient users of good tonning, the handling of sound should be improved by teachers as they do.In addition to this using mimics is another task. Apart from this another factor we should consider is the most important component of music.That is labelled as the tempo!!.This component defines the contunuity of the music. Which can be related with the contunuity of the lectures. The lectures shoul be handled as a non stop playing song that keeps the enthusiasm and curiosity at any moment. Students have lots of other facilities to enjoy apart from lectures. They often ask themselves am I here because I have to or I am willing to do?. Teacher should have a good performance to make the student choose the latter one. Thetratical skills such as posture and mimics seem to be very benfical to accomplish this aim. Apart from this ;to my mind telling a lecture requires a good outline. Every task should be in a good order and every replic of a teacher sholud be good replaced. This definition resembles the scriptwritng process. Even thouh it does not seem to be a live performance; the script writing is a very crucial part of every performance.I think if the outline of lecture is well prepared then the lecture can keep going by itself. For a theatre artist or a movie star the basic deteminant is to define what to do?Defining the parts to act is the key problem in their world. As an analogy for a teacher to determine what to tell is the most important part as well. To write a good outline is a concept not only concerning the performance artists but also teachers as well. Another point that ı would like to talk about is the aesthetics of dancing.If you were to watch any dancing teacher in the action then tou saw the most efficient body usage of a teacher.Alma Latina is the person to combine the teching career and dancing.She says:If dancing is your passion and you find yourself often thinking how much you’d love teaching others how to dance, then it’s time to explore your career in dancing. Becoming a dance teacher is a very viable career option.(2) the dancing
is a related art to teaching in which the both employee the skills of body usage.. Al in all the lecture is a way of performing.It has different components which are related to each other , as the sentences of this essay are related to each other.As sentences build up a general meaning, the components of a lecture such as outine, that should be treated as scriptwriting ,and the Tempo as I mentioned with exclamation signs ,build up a whole.) Any kind of media that is either essay or a lecture should serve for a basic aim.Throughout this process it should employee, different components from different performance arts but it should keep the basic idea in mind. The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts in.Sofar as the former uses the artist’s own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some art object (1).The possesions of a teacher are limited with the body of a teacher so all a teacher can do is to make use of any possible art in the most efficient way .
To sum up; since the first efforts to teach a person something, the lectures have been very improved. Now different tech toools are employed by most educators. At that point the case of magicians seem to be similar to teachers. The easy tricks of old illusionist with smiley face is now replaced by shocking shows of great magicians but people still seem to be vey amazed by a pocket of play cards.So the very basic tricks are still regarded as good performances.Teachers as magicians making a miracle come true, they are making presidents from naughty kids (as platon created Alexander the great).Even though the new tech tools are present a good teacher that employees a good outline writing, tonning and a holly blend of theatretical skills is enough to creat new heros .
References:1 -wikipedia the free encylopedia
2-The Biography of Alma Latina
