Teaching is Performance

A missing link in teacher training.

Complementary to the acquisition of pedagogical methods and subject-area knowledge that prepare today’s teachers for the classroom, BioArt aims to impart to teachers an awareness of the performance aspect that underlies the practice of teaching. BioArt training gives teachers the tools to become aware of their behavior in front of the “audience” of a classroom and learn to perceive and communicate clearly in this underlying performer-audience dynamic.

BioArt’s “Lab 1” workshop can help realign teachers’ nervous system to manage the stress of daily “performance” without switching to the damaging overdose of adrenaline fight-or-flight circuitry that frays nerves and diminishes teachers’ effectiveness and stamina.