As a teacher you’re in the communication business – just like actors, broadcasters, politicians and other public speakers. And your voice is vital for communicating your message to the world: not just the facts but your passion, personality, confidence.
In fact, your voice plays the most important role in one of the toughest challenges in a teacher’s life: managing behaviour in the classroom.
Yet while other types of communicators see voice work as an important part of their career development, unfortunately voice production for teachers is rarely given much, if any, attention in training or after.
Teachers place unique demands on their voices. What other profession has to address their audience up to 7 hours a day, 5 days a week for months at a time? Unsurprisingly many surveys have found that a majority of teachers suffer voice problems. Teachers also make up a large proportion of speech therapy clients.
Yet teachers frequently seem to view voice problems as inevitable: an occupational hazard. They also often attribute problems to upper respiratory tract infections – also seen as inevitable – rather than a symptom of something deeper. It’s all too easy to get into a vicious circle. If your voice is strained and uncertain you are more likely to have problems in class making yourself heard or managing behaviour, which makes you stressed, which in turn depletes your immune system, which then makes you more vulnerable to infections that give you voice problems. So you go round the circle again, and again…
And if your voice fails completely – as could happen – then your career is over.
Even if your voice is coping at the moment, you may well be producing it in a way that is storing up problems for the future.
You have every reason to work on your voice, not only to protect it but also to develop it. Your voice is the most important teaching tool you have, and if you’re not using its full potential then you’re not the best teacher you could be.
In this course you’ll learn the basics of the Better Voice technique, which will allow you to use your voice effectively and confidently in any situation without the strain and fatigue that so easily come with constant use. The course contains:
We hope you enjoy the journey.
Q: What qualities in a voice can influence the effectiveness of the teaching process?
As a teacher you’re in the communication business – just like actors, broadcasters, politicians and other public speakers. And your voice is vital for communicating your message to the world: not just the facts but your passion, personality, confidence.
In fact, your voice plays the most important role in one of the toughest challenges in a teacher’s life: managing behaviour in the classroom.
Yet while other types of communicators see voice work as an important part of their career development, unfortunately voice production for teachers is rarely given much, if any, attention in training or after.
Teachers place unique demands on their voices. What other profession has to address their audience up to 7 hours a day, 5 days a week for months at a time? Unsurprisingly many surveys have found that a majority of teachers suffer voice problems. Teachers also make up a large proportion of speech therapy clients.
Yet teachers frequently seem to view voice problems as inevitable: an occupational hazard. They also often attribute problems to upper respiratory tract infections – also seen as inevitable – rather than a symptom of something deeper. It’s all too easy to get into a vicious circle. If your voice is strained and uncertain you are more likely to have problems in class making yourself heard or managing behaviour, which makes you stressed, which in turn depletes your immune system, which then makes you more vulnerable to infections that give you voice problems. So you go round the circle again, and again…
And if your voice fails completely – as could happen – then your career is over.
Even if your voice is coping at the moment, you may well be producing it in a way that is storing up problems for the future.
You have every reason to work on your voice, not only to protect it but also to develop it. Your voice is the most important teaching tool you have, and if you’re not using its full potential then you’re not the best teacher you could be.
In this course you’ll learn the basics of the Better Voice technique, which will allow you to use your voice effectively and confidently in any situation without the strain and fatigue that so easily come with constant use. The course contains:
We hope you enjoy the journey.
Q: What qualities in a voice can influence the effectiveness of the teaching process?
