# If teachers are actors, is instructional design stage directions? Exploration of a metaphor.

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The piece develops a theatre metaphor for relating instructional design, lesson planning, and teachers' classroom performance.

Blog post · Medium · 16 February 2016

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Medium (medium.com)](https://medium.com/education-voodoo/if-teachers-are-actors-is-instructional-design-stage-directions-exploration-of-a-metaphor-f4a47a9f60c6)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 16 February 2016
- Published in: Medium
- Language: English

Topics: metaphor, instructional-design, teaching, theatre, learning-design.

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