ENGAGING LECTURE TIP 4 Presentation Persona

Part of being an effective teacher is being comfortable with yourself, knowing who you are, and identifying how you can best convey that to students; in short, it is helpful to know your teaching persona and how best to share it with students. A teaching persona is the aspect of your character related to your role as a teacher that you present to students. Students will perceive some of your persona—for example, your age, gender, level of fitness—without your attempts to convey it. Similarly, your choices of what to wear, the number and size of your bags and carrying cases you bring to class, whether you choose to use technology or not, how you address the students, and so forth also convey persona ...

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