Better Voice is an up-to-date approach to the essentials of White’s Technique, a tried and tested system of voice training. By learning the Better Voice technique, with time and practice you could expect to:
Your voice is the foundation for all your interactions with learners, not only in imparting knowledge but also in managing the classroom and dealing with challenging behaviour.
The NUT’s Education Support Partnership believes that all teachers experience classroom behaviour problems at some time, but some much worse than others.
Research – and experience – indicate that pupils respond best to a ‘dominant/co-operative’ mix in teaching style. A confident, authoritative voice is a crucial element in that combination.
Helpfulness, friendliness, concern for individuals and consistent rules and routines are all powerful tools. But they’re infinitely more effective in classroom management when accompanied by a teaching voice that’s assured, unfaltering, clearly audible and apparently effortless. Those are precisely the qualities that this course is designed to develop in you.
White’s Technique has helped innumerable people to literally find their voice. There are many documented cases of a course in the Technique being a life-changing experience. These include people regaining a voice they had virtually lost through vocal damage.
In the video below Helen, a primary school teacher and amateur soprano, who developed serious voice problems as a result of poor voice use at work and at choir, describes how lessons with Course Consultant Peter Giles restored her voice for speaking and singing.
It’s important to know, when you’re working without a Better Voice teacher, that the method is safe. You can be assured that following the Better Voice course as directed cannot possibly damage your voice in any way.
What’s more, by taking the strain off your throat Better Voice will enable you to sound authoritative without having to shout – which is great advantage in controlling the classroom. Shouting suggests losing control rather than imposing it, and a class is quick to spot the signs.
There will be occasions when you need give a disorderly class a bit of a jolt: something education behaviour expert Bill Rogers calls ‘controlled severity’, delivered with a ‘sharper corrective tone’. When you use your Better Voice that corrective tone will increasingly be available to you without straining your throat or sounding as if you’re yelling.
Producing greater volume should never feel an effort. With Better Voice development you will simply be delivering a loud, clear message that gets through to everyone in the room whatever the background noise. We’ll go further into this in Better Voice Part Two, once you’ve mastered the basics in this first part of the course.
Q: What is the most important benefit this course could bring to your teaching?
Better Voice is an up-to-date approach to the essentials of White’s Technique, a tried and tested system of voice training. By learning the Better Voice technique, with time and practice you could expect to:
Your voice is the foundation for all your interactions with learners, not only in imparting knowledge but also in managing the classroom and dealing with challenging behaviour.
The NUT’s Education Support Partnership believes that all teachers experience classroom behaviour problems at some time, but some much worse than others.
Research – and experience – indicate that pupils respond best to a ‘dominant/co-operative’ mix in teaching style. A confident, authoritative voice is a crucial element in that combination.
Helpfulness, friendliness, concern for individuals and consistent rules and routines are all powerful tools. But they’re infinitely more effective in classroom management when accompanied by a teaching voice that’s assured, unfaltering, clearly audible and apparently effortless. Those are precisely the qualities that this course is designed to develop in you.
White’s Technique has helped innumerable people to literally find their voice. There are many documented cases of a course in the Technique being a life-changing experience. These include people regaining a voice they had virtually lost through vocal damage.
In the video below Helen, a primary school teacher and amateur soprano, who developed serious voice problems as a result of poor voice use at work and at choir, describes how lessons with Course Consultant Peter Giles restored her voice for speaking and singing.
It’s important to know, when you’re working without a Better Voice teacher, that the method is safe. You can be assured that following the Better Voice course as directed cannot possibly damage your voice in any way.
What’s more, by taking the strain off your throat Better Voice will enable you to sound authoritative without having to shout – which is great advantage in controlling the classroom. Shouting suggests losing control rather than imposing it, and a class is quick to spot the signs.
There will be occasions when you need give a disorderly class a bit of a jolt: something education behaviour expert Bill Rogers calls ‘controlled severity’, delivered with a ‘sharper corrective tone’. When you use your Better Voice that corrective tone will increasingly be available to you without straining your throat or sounding as if you’re yelling.
Producing greater volume should never feel an effort. With Better Voice development you will simply be delivering a loud, clear message that gets through to everyone in the room whatever the background noise. We’ll go further into this in Better Voice Part Two, once you’ve mastered the basics in this first part of the course.
Q: What is the most important benefit this course could bring to your teaching?
