Get Students Moving and Interacting with Improv
Get your students speaking, acting, listening, and laughing.
Student engagement is always been a challenge for teachers. Now with distance learning and hybrid models, teachers feel more disconnected than ever from their students. In this course, Christopher Younggren teaches how simple improv games create immediate student buy-in, help students gain confidence, cultivate their imaginations, and build skills of effective listening, speaking, and teamwork. Expect to walk away with a set of simple games to use with your remote students starting tomorrow. The sweet spot for this course is teachers in grades 3-12, but primary grade teachers have also gotten their students acting, speaking, and listening.
About the instructor
Christopher holds an undergraduate degree in Communications from Northern Arizona University and a Master’s of Fine Arts from California State University, Fullerton. A lifelong stage actor, national champion public speaker, YouTuber and now middle school ELA teacher, Christopher brings his passion to this course in a way that is positively infectious. Christopher will show you how to connect with your students in-person or online faster and stronger than ever before.
Introduction
Christopher Younggren explains why improv is an ideal tool for the classroom.
Reason #1: Improv Creates a Safe Space.
Reason #2: Improv is a multi-sensory experience.
Reason #3: Improv helps build problem-solving skills.
Bringing improv to the classroom
Game #1: Zip, Zap, Zop... BOING!!
Game #2: Uh....What are you doing?
Game #3: The Alphabet Game.
Closing
Closing thoughts: Give improv a try!
