Using Your Voice Carefully and Effectively in Teaching

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Using Your Voice Carefully and Effectivelyin
Teaching

• Roz Comins
• Voice Care Network UK

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Vocal challenges

• Many different speaking situations
• Large groups
• Problem spaces
• Challenging situations
• Need to keep on top of everything
• Very little voice training
• Feeling pressure stressed

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Interest and needs often expressed

• Voice to carry, project effectively
• Voice to be more flexible or interesting
• Greater clarity of speech
• Ability to show enthusiasm
• How to prevent hoarseness, weak voice and loss of
  voice

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Aspects to consider

• How the voice is produced and controlled
• Practical ways to take care of the voice
• Practical skill and techniques to manage voice
  and spoken delivery effectively

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Each voice is unique
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Control of voice - from the medium to the
message
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Effective voice production

• Relaxation
• Easy postural alignment
• Central Breathing
• Resonance pitch
• Muscular energy in articulation
• Practice

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Resonance

• Hum easily (feel vibration, head, neck, chest)
• Hum with pitch gently rising/falling
• Shape OO Hum OH - Hum
• Explore tone of voice
• OH disappointed !
• OH surprised!
• OH - how wonderful!

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Vowel sounds consonants

• Vowel sounds flow (as rivers of sound)
• enable voice to carry -
• convey feelings, tone of voice
• Consonants precise closures (like river banks)
• give clarity, precision of thought
• Articulate words with muscularity sensitivity
• sounds reinforce meaning
• create energy, impact

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Care for your voice - check difficulties

• Pain or soreness in larynx
• Frequent throat clearing
• Hoarseness, croakiness
• Tickly cough
• Loss of power, voice tired at end of day
• Voice Loss

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Action to take

• Consider how voice used, voice production
• Breathe steam, use relaxation
• Reduce talking time
• Catch cold, infection? reduce voice use, do not
  whisper, if laryngitis?- rest recover
• 2-3 weeks of unexpected voice change ?
• Consult your GP possible ENT consultation
• Seek help

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Explore muscularity and sensitivity in words

• You taught me language, and the profit ont
• Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
• For learning me your language!
• Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises
• Sounds and sweet airs the give delight and
  hurt not

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Enjoy your voice

• Drink water or water-based drinks
• Warm-up voice - relaxation breathing
• resonance tone - easy articulation
• Use contrast - tone of voice, power,
• pace, pauses, phrasing, intonation
• Report problems, seek help

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