The Body as Performative Mode: "Teaching Performance"

“ Teaching Performance”: Investigating the Body Language that Teaches A Multimodal Project by HANNAH RULE

Some inspiration for this project—how the body delivers meaning Experiences in the classroom, observing a professor ,[object Object]

How the body delivers or undercuts “authority” I had a mentor tell me that my constant use of “right?” made it seem like I was asking the class for validation, making it as though they knew more than me. It cracked my authority veneer—a veneer (still according to this “mentor”) that was already undercut by my being a “young and female. ” Especially for young teachers, the body is a significant surface of expressing who we are in the classroom. ,[object Object]

The Project ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Project—Guiding Questions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Hands deliver language — hands play a big role in my classroom communication: bring focus, push an idea across, illustrate sequences/order

Enact instructions and lessons: Very procedural and often narrate instructions; act out the situation, hand language emphasized by technology ,[object Object],[object Object]

Illustrate/reinforce concepts through gestures Trying to show how writing an abstract makes us think in terms of the big picture of our writing/project goals

Soliciting response Encouraging student response; my body becomes bendy, exaggerated, humorous ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Teaching Persona vs. OBSERVED BODY ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Teaching Performance? Some Final Observations and Questions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Teaching Performance? Some Final Observations and Questions Making the teaching body visible—invaluable Risk—vulnerability involved offering the body, voice, image as text Multimodality—body as “communicative technology”

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