Teaching Speech

Open to Acting Program students only.

This course is highly specialized and enrollment
highly selective. Offered only at the graduate
level and in the Spring, it is specifically for
graduate acting students who have demonstrated
the aptitude and skill necessary to teach Speech,
have been identified as such by their Speech
teachers and who are interested in pursuing
Speech-teaching as a career. The primary aim of
the course will be to help the student to develop
the skills in sound production, listening,
language technique and accents and dialects that
are necessary to be an effective Speech
instructor. Though the course does not certify
the student to teach Speech, it is in-depth,
practical, comprehensive, and aims to ensure that
the student could teach Speech effectively were
he/she to chosen to do so.

Students enrolled in this course will be required
to refine their sound production and listening
skills through physical practice and to develop
the ability to teach language techniques and
accent/dialect principles clearly through
demonstration. In addition, they will be required
to teach Speech to assigned students in both a
class and tutorial context as well as to coach
performers in an assigned performance exercise or
project. Other components of the course include
attending pedagogical meetings with the
instructor and demonstrating applied Good
American Stage Speech, Classic American Stage
Speech, language techniques and Dialects and
Accents as assigned. The time structure and topic
sequencing of the course is necessarily flexible
and dynamic and is partly determined by, not only
the instructor's and students' schedules, but
also on the performance production schedule of
the Institute.