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Teaching LAMDA in Different Settings · Gabi’s Speech and Drama Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello,
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  SPEAKER_00: everybody,
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  SPEAKER_00: and welcome to our March meetup,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is all about teaching Lambda in lots of different settings.
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  And I thought that would be a useful topic because I know that
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  when I first
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  SPEAKER_00: started,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was just teaching,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: from my front room.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then as the business expanded,
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  SPEAKER_00: we built a studio in the garden,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we were also going into schools a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we now have Zoom as well as another setting.
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  And we also sometimes,
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  not very often,
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  but occasionally we'll actually go into people's homes.
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  And in fact,
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  Sasha,
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  who's in this meeting,
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  is one of our teachers who does that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we may talk to you a little bit about that experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: So before I blab on about me,
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  let's just talk to you guys and you can tell me some of the
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  settings that you teach
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  SPEAKER_00: in and I'll sort of tick them off my list.
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  SPEAKER_00: Catherine,
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  you're unmuted at the moment and you said that you have just
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  come back into
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  SPEAKER_00: teaching Lambda,
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  SPEAKER_00: already having a business directing children's shows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  And so where and where what setting are you teaching your
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  Lambda students in?
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  I'm planning to teach online and I have had some interest at
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  some local primary
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  SPEAKER_01: schools about going in as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it might be twofold.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK.
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  SPEAKER_00: And are you going to use Zoom for the online lessons?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think so.
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  It seems the most straightforward and the most flexible that
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  everybody has,
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  you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  there are definite benefits about teaching online because some
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  of our students are
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  SPEAKER_01: saying that they don't have to run them from football to something.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're already in the house, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's the benefit, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a benefit in terms of for you as the teacher as well,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that you're not having to,
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  SPEAKER_00: I suppose,
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  SPEAKER_00: hire a space.
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  Obviously,
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  if you're using a room in your own home,
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  then that's not necessarily an issue.
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  But if you don't have space to teach at home,
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  then Zoom is a really good option.
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  It also means that you can have classes pretty much back to
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  back without having to
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  SPEAKER_00: worry about traveling or getting one student out and the next student in.
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  The only real cost is a Zoom subscription,
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  which I think is about £18 a month.
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  um which you would then kind of split across all of your
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  classes when you're
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  figuring out the costs um and the advantage of course to
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  parents is as you say um
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  they don't have to they they can just do it do it from home so
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  it is a really uh
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  useful option it also means you can teach students who are
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  overseas and i know
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  SPEAKER_00: One of my colleagues has a huge,
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  SPEAKER_00: most of her teaching work is students from China doing it on Zoom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they take their exams at the public ROA centres.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think also,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: obviously if you have enough students,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can set up a private ROA centre as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I don't believe just because I teach them online,
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  SPEAKER_01: they have to have an online examination,
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  SPEAKER_01: do they?
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  SPEAKER_00: They do not have to have an online examination.
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  My rule tends to be that if you are exclusively having your
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  lessons online,
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  SPEAKER_00: then it's a good idea to have your...
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  exam online if they live nearish our studio and they're just
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  doing zoom for
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  convenience and they want to do a live exam then my
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  recommendation is that they
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  come and have a live lesson for the last three or four lessons
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  um so that they can
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  um you know have the exam in the actual format that they're
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  going to be yeah
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  have their lessons in the actual format that they're going to
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  have their exams in.
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  SPEAKER_00: What subjects are you teaching online or planning to teach online?
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to do the acting and the verse and prose.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've had some interest in the public speaking as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's where I'm so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  The verse and prose and public speaking lend themselves very
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  well to online.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because with acting, you are being assessed on your use of the space.
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  I'm not saying it's not entirely possible,
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  but they just have to have a good setup.
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  I have found that a lot of the time when I'm teaching on Zoom,
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  they're quite hemmed in.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't have a huge amount of space.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if I just sort of remove my background...
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  someone's clock is going oh i'm so sorry it's my husband's
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  favorite clock it's like
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  big ben so for example it's really done my office is such a
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  mess at the moment uh
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  because of the festival but if you're watching on video you can
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  see i've actually
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  SPEAKER_00: got a really nice space here yeah and i think they do i can't remember