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What Are Performative Skills — and Why Do Teachers Need Them?
Performative skills are essential in teaching, enabling educators to influence how learning is experienced in real time. These skills encompass voice, gesture, timing, and response, significantly affecting students’ feelings of safety and engagement. Teachers need meta-performative awareness to understand the implications of their actions, fostering a supportive learning environment. Continue reading
Why Teacher Education Needs a Performative Framework
How can we train teachers to respond to learners in real time? In teacher education, some of the most important aspects of teaching are often the least clearly understood. As a teacher educator, a large part of my work involves … Continue reading
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From Performative Skills to Meta-Performative Awareness
A New Way of Thinking About Teacher Development In teacher education, we often focus on what teachers know and what teachers do. We help teachers develop knowledge of language, pedagogy, planning, assessment, and classroom management. We also help them build … Continue reading
Map of the Floor: When Teachers Step Into Their Story
An embodied reflection on identity, presence, and the journeys that shape how we teach. The Simple Workshop Exercise That Reveals a Teacher’s Journey In my Teaching Artistry workshops, I sometimes ask teachers to do something unusual. I tell them to … Continue reading
Unlocking Teacher Potential: The Owl Transformation
The Owl Transformation The 10-Minute Activity That Reveals More About Teaching Than a Lecture Ever Could I often begin my Teaching Artistry workshops with a warning: “This activity is dangerous.” Teachers look concerned. Then I tell them they’re going to … Continue reading
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Every Time You Give Feedback, You Choose Control or Trust
Feedback Isn’t Neutral: What Every Facilitator Is Really Choosing Feedback feels like the responsible thing to do. Learners expect it.Institutions demand it.Teachers are trained to provide it. But feedback is never just feedback. Every time a facilitator responds to learner … Continue reading
The Importance of First Impressions in Facilitation
The First Five Minutes Matter More Than You Think The first five minutes of a lesson, workshop, or course often do more pedagogical work than the next fifty. Before learners engage with content or objectives, they encounter something more immediate: … Continue reading
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Reflections on Performative Pedagogy: Why Community Matters More Than Ever
Not all forms of teacher development feel alive.Some feel like information delivery. Others feel like compliance. Very few feel like genuine growth. Performative pedagogy, and the Community Forum approach that sits within it, offers something different. It reminds us that … Continue reading
We tell teachers to reflect, but never teach them how to feel
Teacher reflection has become a mantra in professional development.But what if reflection just stays trapped in our heads? Teachers sit in training sessions analysing lessons and discussing what went wrong. They fill out self-evaluation forms, watch their peers, and write … Continue reading
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Performative ELT
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