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Луганський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка, Україна

About Education: Teachers’ Artistic Principals

Teaching means learning - lifelong learning. The definitions of teaching are very straightforward: 1) imparting knowledge or skill, 2) an activity, 3) intended behavior to induce learning, 4) non-traditional teaching.

There are some points of crossing between teacher’s and artistic professions.

We’d like to introduce some principals which put to participant at center stage and seek to replicate the stresses of relevant, life-like situations encountered in the target language. The classrooms techniques involved are rapid paced, unrestrained, theatrical, highly creative, imaginative, and necessitate great quantities of enthusiasm. Positive reinforcement is immediate and dramatic.

A lot of scientists believe that for both actors and teachers, the best way to be effective is to keep the audience’s, or the students’ attention. The teachers must have such qualities:

- sense of humor, cheerfulness, enthusiasm;

- emotional stability;

- superior intelligence;

- flexibility, creativity;

- pleasant voice;

- kindness, patience and diligence;

- tolerance, cooperativeness, positive and outlook.

Now, we’ll give a short description of some teaching principals:

- Self- knowledge: for the teacher, this means to look back on his or her own experience as a pupil and “get rid of the things that turned us off. It calls for an understanding that we are shaped by what we teach.”

- Direction: but in effective teaching, it isn’t that “plodding, lifeless requirement” which must be handed into the principal or the department chairman; it’s the teacher’s knowledge of the role and goal “because he/she is an actor in a drama”.

- Spontaneity: part of spontaneity is “creating the illusion of the first time” in experiences that require a response from the learners.

- Empathy: to teaching as oxygen is to human survival, if the teacher doesn’t have the wish to see and feel things somehow from the learner’s point of view, then maybe he/she can present information but he/she cannot teach. Empathy enables us to feel concerned with our pupils' problems and the efforts we make to cope with them. This quality enables us to understand our pupils better both emotionally as well as intellectually. On the child's eye view we need a lot of emotional, flexibility. Empathy enables us to be judicious, impartial and objective.

- Humor: the sense of humor is a good trait in a teacher. Whenever we combine elements in a way that is different, unexpected and incongruous, we wind up with humor. As a teacher, we should develop the ability to play spontaneously with ideas, concepts and relationships. The teacher should have the ability to juggle elements into impossible juxtaposition and express the ridiculous. All of these can bring in an atmosphere of humor in the classroom. Humor can turn out to be a good tool in the hands of an enlightened teacher.

- The creative stage: the teacher must face the class intent on creating and sharing experience. “The point is to make the learners remember the experience.” The teacher is most likely to remember when his/her emotions and intellect are engaged.

We mean all the ways by learner’s senses both verbally using spoken language and non-verbally using hand gestures and “gross body movements”. Noting the large difference in sensory motor stimulation, we feel that “the effectiveness of the teacher is explained by the “reality” of the teacher who through energy expended in communicative body movements and vocal language behaviors, transmits commitment to communication and affects students learning through all the sense”.