In this month's episode, Ali Warren is in conversation with Janet Shell. Janet provides voice coaching and communication skills to teachers. Janet is an experienced classroom teacher herself who has also had a long career as a professional opera singer and singing teacher. She now brings her broad expertise and her technical knowledge of the voice to offer personal and targeted training in healthy voice use.

Alison and Janet talk all about the vocal health for teachers, how voice communicates meaning, how voice supports behaviour management and considers the importance of teacher well being with voice work. As teachers are we straining our voices? Do we even realise if we are?

Janet has written book which listeners might want to read: https://www.talkingvoice.net/talkingteachers.html

As trainee teachers, have you thought about how you are using your voice? Janet's work is all about making us more aware and having the tools to be better speakers. 

"...our voice is not an instrument you put away at the end of the day, you carry on using it...and yet you expect it to keep working and you've already compromised it by the amount of use it has..." Janet Shell.