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It's Tuesday and ... Rick Andrews is our guest!

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Rick Andrews is a teacher and performer at The Magnet Theater and has been studying, performing, and teaching improvisation since 1999. He began improvising with Improv Boston and continued with a stint in Saint Louis, MO. He has been fortunate to learn from many improv greats, including Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Will Luera, Jill Bernard, and more.

Rick has taught workshops at improv festivals across the country, including the Boston Improv Festival, Baltimore Improv Festival, Black Box Atlanta, and many more. He co-produces Duofest, an annual festival of improv duos in Philly, PA. He has taught improvisation to people as old as 75 and as young as 6 and has done workshops for production companies and zoos alike.

He enjoys running, putting words on pages, thinking about the brain, and he loves improv more than anything.

Welcome to Quick Takes! Today we discuss setting up expectations in the classroom. This is an essential piece of the improv classroom. Expectations help students feel safe and comfortable to explore, fail, grow, and learn.

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Today it's all about the Socratic Method. Learn what it is and how to implement it in your improv classroom.

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It's episode 10 of Improv Teachers: Quick Takes. You can find more on YouTube at https://youtu.be/kAGcT5U8PYI.

In this episode, I discuss impact vs intention and how to use it for the improv classroom!

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It's Tuesday and Jocelyn Hillen is our guest!

Jocelyn Hillen is a Pittsburgh native who had her first brush with theater life at a traumatic audition for the Mickey Mouse Club in 1992. She went on to earn a BFA in acting from The University of the Arts and has acted in numerous theatrical productions, including several short films. She performs regularly in Pittsburgh at Arcade Comedy Theater, Steel City Improv Theater, and Unplanned Comedy. She’s been performing, coaching and teaching long-form improv for 6 years. She will never forget that she didn’t make it as a Mouseketeer.

This week's Quick Take is about using the 5 whys to get your student to understand and learn in the classroom.

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It's Tuesday and ... Andel Sudik is our guest!

Andel was born and raised in Santa Clarita, California. She spent her winters and summers on her family’s farm in Nebraska near Wahoo and moved to Chicago right after high school. She has performed all over the US with The Second City Touring Company and all over Europe with Boom Chicago. She lived in Amsterdam for two years and Arizona for two months among other random places. She has been performing and teaching sketch comedy and improvisation for the last 10 years. Check out her website https://www.yesandel.com/

In this episode, we discuss Mel Robbin's 5-second rule and how it can be applied to improv!

In this episode, host Lauren Morris discusses keeping teams motivated, hard notes, when to apologize for putting your foot in your mouth and being transparent.

This week we are going to start our multi-part series on Bloom's Taxonomy.

There are 6 parts:

Remember

Understand

Apply

Analyze

Evaluate

Create

This week we wrap it up with evaluating and creating!

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