Using the voice and body in the classroom

website: https://voiceandbody.eu
KA2 Partnerships for creativity – adult education
Partners: élan interculturel (France), CESIE (Italy), Grotowski Institute (Poland), In Touch (Netherlands), La XIxa (Spain)

In the VOICE project developed a toolkit as a self-assessment or training tool to explore the bodily / vocal presence of trainers during their pedagogical interventions.  The toolkit is for trainers and educators involved in different adult education activities (i.e. language teaching for migrants, sexuality education, theatre education etc.). In the VOICE project we developed tools that offers them a perspective on the observation of their own non-verbal and verbal performance, identifying their dominant patterns of using their body and voice in when they are with their learners.  If many of them can express doubts and concerns about their performance, these are rather subjective impression that would deserve to be contrasted with their actual behaviour to be able to identify the domains needing development. The toolkit enables the educators to assess their own performance in their interventions and to open the possibility to start a long-lasting process of working with their voice and body, seen as tools they use in their job. This process involves working through their own habits of using the everyday voice and bodily presence, as well as the more “performative” ones, as a teaching intervention is in itself a performative act. Building feed-back loops as tool to auto asses their professional performance: To have a more constructive view on themselves as professionals in order not to fall into self-criticism or flattering.

“I THINK IT’S A REALLY FUN AND PLEASANT
WAY TO ANALYZE YOUR PROFESSIONAL
BEING. I WISH EVERYBODY WOULD BE
OFFERED THIS OPPORTUNITY”

Do you want to learn more about how we helped adult educators, what did we learn about presence, body and voice? Read our article

Individual learning path based on
self-analysis using video

http://voiceandbody.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IndividualLearningPath.pdf

The role of the educator in
constant exploration – do you want to learn more how? Read our article here:

http://voiceandbody.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Theatre.pdf

The voice of a relaxed body – here you find the whole article:

http://voiceandbody.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/VoiceOfARelaxedBody.pdfdf