A comprehensive course for educators on voice health, ensuring effective teaching through understanding and maintaining vocal strength.
This course is all about helping teachers take care of their voices. You'll learn how your voice works, ways to keep it in great shape, and how to use it effectively in classrooms. Plus, it’s packed with fun exercises and videos to help you along the way!
A comprehensive course to help you understand, protect and enrich your teaching voice
This course provides all teachers, lecturers and education assistants with a basic awareness of how the voice works, how to keep it healthy and how to use it to best effect in the teaching environment. Teachers have to use their voices day in and and day out and it is so easy for the professional voice to be taken for granted until there is a problem - this course helps prevent such problems. Many teachers will regularly suffer voice disorders through mis-use or just, quite simply, over-use! This course helps equip the teacher with the knowledge to keep their voice healthy, flexible and able to meet the demands of the profession.
All technical terms (relevant to a basic understanding of voice) are fully explained and general educational terminology is kept to a minimum and would be familiar to all classroom practitioners.
The course consists of video and audio lectures with visual illustrations and practical exercises.
Over two and three quarter hours of detailed material provide relevant insight into how to make the most of the teaching voice. Obviously, allowing for factual consolidation and exercise practice the course will take longer to complete and it can be left to the student to schedule and allocate their own time commitment.
The course (video and audio lectures) is structured logically, each giving examples and exercises that are easy to follow at home. It is possible to work through sequentially and then jump back to rework a section of the student's choice.
Teachers and lecturers can be considered to be professional voice users yet few have formal voice training. This course can fill that essential gap and help provide the basic understanding of the vocal mechanism, how to take care of it and use it well in a variety of educational situations.
To help the teacher to understand the workings of the voice, to keep it healthy and use it safely and effectively in a variety of professional situations.
By the end of this course students will understand how to keep the voice healthy, how to avoide problems through misuse and have techniques to help use the voice in a vital and varied manner to meet the demands of the profession.
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I've always been fascinated with voices. As a young girl at school in England I can remember mimicking all the voices of the Thunderbirds characters (and doing horrific things to the vocal cords in the process, I now realise!). As girls we were delighted to get all the male voices right too – my specialities were Parker, Brains and Jeff...
I enjoyed the work on breath control.
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Brilliant , well structured, well delivered.
I actually browsed through everything and didn't do all the work. I want to return to do this when I have more time.
Thank you to SJSU iSchool for making this course available to us adjuncts.
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Diane
Thank you for the content--I was able to follow some of the outline and supplement with other sources. I contacted Udemy help and much of the content I could not access--perhaps due to my machine--
Taking this course was a great experience. The tips and exercises are very helpful. I will always keep in mind breathing, articulation, pitch, resonance, volume, and tone color for different types of content and emotion while creating recordings.
Marina's approach to voice care and coaching is professional and hugely impressive. She covers an enormous amount of ground, giving depth and breadth of advice in aspects of speaking that had never occurred to me before, even though I've done a lot of speaking over the years. My upcoming new direction in my career involves teaching with audiences large and small, and I know Marina's teaching is going to be very helpful for me. So thank you Marina for your professionalism and your concern to help us teachers use our voice effectively and efficiently.
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Esther R.
The sound quality is absolutely awful. Was this made in the 1990s?