Performing Arts Teacher Lesson Plans and Video: Awakening Joy

An introduction to teaching in the performing arts is the featured lesson plan for this video. Of course the most dear to our heart is the episode on being a performing arts teacher. Albert Einstein said, "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." We hope to give your students a feel for the pleasures of teaching. Our interviewees are all in love with teaching. It'll make you all warm inside to hear them, and it will make your students look at the teaching profession in a whole new light.

Synopsis of the TV program

Professionals: Martha Franks is a drama teacher, Damon Conn, an orchestra teacher and Michael Medcalf is a dance educator.

School activity: We talk with students about their relationship with their performing arts teachers.

Follow-up Activities:

For this lesson we have your students collecting data on the best teachers in your school and then applying what they've learned from the entire Shortcuts to Happiness series to give a classroom presentation. In effect teaching about a profession they are considering.

What Does It Really Take?

Venn Diagram: When You Learn, Teach. When You Get, Give. - Maya Angelou

This program gives you the opportunity to let your students know that your art is the content you teach - it's what you love. Your desire to serve shows up as your willingness to help students learn. And your pride in accomplishment is the feeling you get when your students stretch the boundaries of their own expectations.

Video Clips

	Michael Medcalf
	Lake High School Student, Stark County Ohio

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