Here's some feedback to workshops from a teacher,
some parents, some students, etc.
A Momento
This card is feedback from one of my earliest workshops, before I'd finished my certification as a teacher. I'd offered a junior high English teacher a proposal to do a reader's theatre using interested students that she bribed by not having to do a book report. We practiced in the auditorium on a story I'd scripted from a James Thurber Classic of "The Night the Ghost Got In." Students took on the various roles of the Thurber family and the cops investigating. Several English classes became our audience.
This was one of Stan Coss's illustrations for the Thurber story that used rear projection for a school audience or frontal projection for a YMCA workshop.
The emphasis now is getting students
to visualize and vocalize so well
that the audience becomes
part of the action.
This is from a teacher of TMCS where Stan Coss led
nine week workshops two days a week.
These are two parents from Stan Coss's
Youth Toastmasters' workshops.
This is from the Toastmaster Club that sponsored my Youth Toastmaster workshops.
Principal Aaron Greene became Superintendent Aaron Greene within the same school system within a year of writing this recommendation below.
I "retired" while my two youngest were still in elementary school school so I could assist with workshops where they attended TMCS. Only my son is now at home as he continues at BRCC. After four years as an adjunct at BRCC, I'm now seeking a position as a volunteer teaching public speaking to a generation that mostly uses just a screen for social media. The resume below was prepared when I still was seeking employment after 30 years teaching in Polk County Schools, N.C.
