<b>Teaching Theatre Acting: A Case for Student-Centered Learning</b>

In the first blog, I gave you a peek into the Seminarium Elements book, <i>Pedagogy and Student-Centered Learning: Designing the right environment </i>and shared a little about the first two chapters highlighting the differences between student-and teacher-centered learning and investigating a variety of pedagogies that can and are used in the classroom.  I introduced the use of theatre and creative pedagogies as highly effective methods for fostering a student-centered teaching and learning environment.  Current teaching trends are seeing a rise in arts-based educational approaches, which hold promising applications to virtually all subjects. This is because the creative process is intrinsically <i>student-centered</i> and engages students in a way that fosters and develops “soft skills” necessary for every career path.