#2 journal reveiw

Mitch Miller jmiller10@leo.tamu-commerce.edu
ETECH 424 10-9-08
There is a clear analogy between the improvisational actor and the teacher. Teaching in the college classroom has that same mix of premeditation and improvisation that effectively communicates with the audience. The theatre metaphor is particularly useful for a teacher’s development of presentational communication skills. A teacher’s “performance” can be enhanced using the same preparation, rehearsal, and audience analysis techniques utilized by actors. Of particular importance are overcoming performance anxiety, effectively combining preparation and improvisation, supporting verbal messages with appropriate nonverbal behavior, and learning to play multiple roles to communicate effectively with a variety of student “audiences.’’

Ewald,Luara.(Summer2005) Vol. 53 Issue 3.Commedia Dell ‘Arte Academica.
Summary
The Commedia Dell ‘Arte Academic involves the creativity of the human consept to create a character through an improvisation on pre-arranged synopses involving a group of familiar formalized chararters and a series of stock situations that are created through the learning experience for students and teachers playing the same roles as actors and directors to learn how to use different skills to better communicate with a variety of people that have their own unique style gestures, languages, postures, and expressions into a colorful personality that better communicate with the audience. As a result, the teacher should understand to encourage students to understand how to use the Using of their human instrument to effectively communicate to the audience. Therefore, students are able to collaborate with their teacher and classmates to create the roles of the actors, directors, and designers. The teacher’s main role is to instruct the roles of the participating cast into playing the key “human instrument” for communication. After the play the teacher instructs the students ask the audience if they have any questions about the play. In comparison, in the class room after a lecture from a given academic subject when the teacher asks for questions and concerns that they may have about the lectured subject matter discussed in their class. In addition, to asking questions to the class the teacher must be prepared to answer certain individual questions that will need to be evaluated and explained in a the most effective way that the students will understand the details illustrated in the lecture. On the other hand, teachers need to understand how to involve different individuals that think differently. In the same way students as actors need to understand how to use their unique “human instruments” of communication skills when performing in front of a diverse variety of people in the audience. In otherwords, the student actors need to understand how to effectively communicate with a certain audience. In the same way, when writing a research paper or play or story one needs to understand what kind of audience they are talking to in their writing.
Reflection
This article gave me an insight about how import correct preparartion, improvisation, good communication skills are assential to constructing various ways of communication that will inform the audience of listeners, readers, writers, and technicains.