{"id":1664,"date":"2013-02-25T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:58:25","slug":"teaching-as-improvisational-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2013\/02\/25\/teaching-as-improvisational-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching as Improvisational Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of becoming a seasoned teacher is that you no longer need to lecture. The classroom becomes improvisational theater, a theater of the absurd&#8211;a magical space where cognitive and affective dissonance rule. It is Socratic teaching plus the humor of a Lenny Bruce, a Mort Sahl or, even better, a Betty Wh<em><\/em>ite.<\/p>\n<h5 data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:1,&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">My 16 year-old daughter was raving this morning about how cool Betty White is. I think it is her over-the-top humor that appeals to the young. It suddenly dawned on me that since my cancer diagnosis I have been channeling Betty in my classrooms . . . I may have to put that in my course descriptions so as to forewarn unsuspecting students! As one student recently put it, &#8220;it&#8217;s not so much the outrageous things you say, but that it&#8217;s coming out of the mouth of an old man!!!&#8221;<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of becoming a seasoned teacher is that you no longer need to lecture. The classroom becomes improvisational theater, a theater of the absurd&#8211;a magical space where cognitive and affective dissonance rule. It is Socratic teaching plus the humor of a Lenny Bruce, a Mort Sahl or, even better, a Betty White. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,144],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}