Watch out! Teacher-in-role!

I am trying to finish this year, my first year, with dignity and grace – although I fear I may have lost that in a lesson somewhere after taking on yet another character as a “teacher-in-role”.

It all started after I led a best practice briefing sharing the ways that staff can incorporate performing arts into their own lessons (focusing on methods of hot-seating, teacher-in-role, script work and use of song) and the benefits of this. It seems my acting skills are now in high demand across the school as staff experiment with these ideas.

As a performing arts specialist school it seems a fantastic method of maintaining this status within each faculty and promoting the arts across the curriculum, while also providing teachers with a different and engaging method to break-up the 100-minute lessons that we will be facing next year as we reorganise the structure of our school day.