ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the teacher to develop ideas about how their voice links closely to teacher's wider teaching skills, and how development of both is inextricably linked. In terms of 'being interesting', there are reasons why teacher's voice is important. The chapter considers how the voice more deeply connects to teacher's pedagogy and how this might affect it in a positive or negative way. The key roles that a teacher plays in the classroom could be related, metaphorically at least, to the role that an actor has to play. Most successful lessons begin with a well constructed lesson plan. The chapter also considers the work of one of the leading proponents of 'artistry in teaching', Elliot Eisner. Eisner suggests that recognising artistry as teaching gives us a way of seeking out its particular artistic elements and using these to help think, and talk, about teaching in different ways.
