Bill asked everyone to think of the way hooks work in the movies, citing Jurassic Park and Home Alone and the hooks they use to pull the audience in. At the Vet Teaching Hospital some faculty start class with presentation of a problem and then move students toward trying to solve it. The initial presentation of a problem gets student attention early. Timpson then mentioned that students in large classes often do not get the big picture. Faculty know their material so well that they often overlook this big picture.
Performance provides an avenue for thinking about the big picture and communicating it to students.
Timpson then ended with several final considerations. There is power in tension and conflict. In Techniques, which involves going inside ourselves for the emotional component through memory or going outside ourselves to create the best possible representation. As teaching faculty, we need to bring into the class our enthusiasm. .