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By Richard G. Elliott
If you see your favorite professor
walking across campus dressed as
a clown, don't be disturbed.
He hasn't lost his mind. He may
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advocated by two USC professors.
Dr. Leon Lessinger, department of
education rfpan anrf Dr TV?n nillic
director for the Center of Media
Art Studies, have co-written a book
entitled, Teaching As A Per- "
forming Art.
TAPA, as ii is most commonly
called, was established in the
classroom in order to materialize
similarities between performing
artists and teachers.
Both have an audience. Both
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have a place to perform. Both have
performance material. And both
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perform.
Lessinger first proposed the
concept and asked Gillis and Dr.
J.C. Smith to teach a class using
his idea. Gillis did the art portion of
teaching the course, and because
of the success of this experiment,
TAPA was written.
In addition an audio-video series
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Gillis explained that "teaching
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classroom, just as a football team
works on the field. Wherefore,
anyone who is striving to utilize
everyone's talents to obtain perfection
as is the coach and his ball
players. So is a teacher who strives
to obtain the same goal of perfection
for her students."
Gillis also said, "In general,
teachers should be aware of TAPA,
since a teacher is compared to a
performer in the theater. In
theater the simulations of
everyday life are brought on by the
performer. Therefore, one should
be able to come alive and make the
audience or class feel what you
feel," Gillis added.
"No learning is possible until
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the student. Teachers need to use
the principles of the arts in their
performance of honesty, integrity,
and dedication to work towards
perfection. One should start with
the self and a knowledge of the
dramatic skills involving performance
in the arena of the self,"
he said.
The principle elements of TAPA
include styles and modes of the
performance, the ability of i
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the mobilization of human 1
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sure that everyone learns. This is <
the acknowledgement of the
teachers to share what they have. t
Lessinger explained, t4A teacher i
must possess competence, confidence,
and the ability to care and ]
inspire creativeness." The
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develop a teacher who can com- ;
municate his knowledge, and who
is able to inspire students to use ;
their talents.
In the past, education has been
represented by a "textbook to
pencil" playback. Now by using
Teaching As A Performing Art,
teachers can transform the pages
of the textbook into different
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modes, and by producing the
perfect performance, the student
will be able to perform a little
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More than 100 educators ail over
the country inquired about TAPA
materials.
The Los Angeles County
Education System has adopted the
rAPA concept to assist in training
teachers to become "performing
artists".
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will be offered in the fall semester I
to graduate students Thursday i
from 4:30 to 7:15 p.m.
Gillis is Director for the Center
of Media Art Studies and has been ]
Composer-in-Residence at TISP
since spring 1973. a native of ;
Cameron, Mo., he received his i
undergraduate degree from Texas i
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composing, teaching and performing
with being a staff
musician at WBAP, Fort Worth,
Texas.
Gillis has composed apnroximatelv
200 sonres narrative
works, operas, orchestral works
and ballets. He has written
numerous newspaper and
magazine articles and hundreds of
scripts for NBC.
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