ABSTRACT
Today, even conference organizers or museum curators may be called impresarios when they are especially energetic and engaged in organizing and promoting a conference or show. In the Impresario with a Scenario model, by design, students and teachers play off each others energies, unpredictably and often urgently, with the teacher primarily responsible for setting the scene and organizing, focusing, and sustaining the energies of a class in consistently productive ways. Yet other kinds of scenarios necessarily involve the professor as the central actor: launching a talk show as the host or emcee, for instance, or as the focus of attention in an impersonation. Thinking in terms of scene-setting can take it to another level, however, giving the teacher a broader and more powerful framework within which to work. Beyond the occasional impresario are professors who might use one particular kind of scenario extensively in their classes, but no other.
