Each short episode will focus on a different issue that affects the lives and work of Speech and Drama Teachers: overcoming difficulties, filling your timetable, transferring your skills, working in different environments, planning and preparing, dealing with exam boards... <br/><br/><a href="https://gabimaddocks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">gabimaddocks.substack.com</a>
Gabi’s Speech and Drama Podcast
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Each short episode will focus on a different issue that affects the lives and work of Speech and Drama Teachers: overcoming difficulties, filling your timetable, transferring your skills, working in different environments, planning and preparing, dealing with exam boards... <br/><br/><a href="https://gabimaddocks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">gabimaddocks.substack.com</a>
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April 30, 2026
Teaching the Mechanics of Breathing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://gabimaddocks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">gabimaddocks.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>This week’s video is designed to support both teachers and students navigating Grade 6 Acting, Verse and Prose, or Speaking in Public, particularly when it comes to breathing techniques and voice production.</p><p>It comes as the result of a question asked a training session this week: “But how do you actually teach it?”</p><p>It’s a brilliant question and highlighted an important point - I’ve shared lots of resources and handouts on this question, but I’ve never actually gone through the sequence in which I teach students about the mechanism of breathing. </p><p>A Simple Three Step Teaching Sequence</p><p>This video works best as part of a three-step learning process:</p><p><strong>STEP 1: Slow, clear explanation.</strong> </p><p>Don’t rush it. Depending on the length of your classes, it might take the whole lesson. During this step, I recommend that your student listens rather than taking notes. They need to hear and understand the concept.</p><p><strong>STEP 2: Independent consolidation.</strong></p><p>They go away, think about what they’ve learned in class and deepen that understand through reading and watching videos. </p><p><strong>STEP 3: Teach it back.</strong> </p><p>At the next class, as them to explain it back to you. This is the real test: if they can teach it clearly, then they understand it. </p><p>This video can sit at Step One (initial teaching) or Step Two (consolidation) depending on what you need. If you feel confident teaching the mechanism of breathing yourself, then go for it, and ask them to watch the video for homework. If you are slightly shaky on the concepts, then use the video as the initial teaching tool and ask them to go home and look at other materials to consolidate what they’ve learned. You can use the slideshow that I’ve shared at the bottom of this article (the one I use in my own classes) and here’s a link to the now famous video of my lovely husband explaining breathing: </p><p><strong>What the Video Covers</strong></p><p>The focus is on the <strong>mechanics of breathing</strong> and how this underpins vocal technique. It explains the following key concepts:</p>
April 24, 2026
Voice Workshop from Imogen Read
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://gabimaddocks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">gabimaddocks.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>I’m very excited to share this with you because it genuinely exceeded my expectations. I haven’t done any proper work on voice since I was at drama school LAST CENTURY! And so all my vocal warm ups are tired and remembered quite hazily from long ago. I loved learning new exercises and an approach that will really engage our students, young and old. </p><p>We were joined by voice coach <strong>Imogen Read</strong>, who brought a rare combination of drama school expertise and real-world LAMDA teaching experience.</p><p>Below is a summary of what we covered, but you will need to watch (and join in with!) the video in order to really understand the principles, exercises and techniques. </p><p><strong>The foundations of safe, effective voice work</strong></p><p>Before jumping into exercises, we looked at the five building blocks of healthy voice use:</p><p>* <strong>A free body</strong> (alignment, not tension)</p><p>* <strong>A free breath</strong> (low, responsive—not forced)</p><p>* <strong>Easy phonation</strong> (no hard or breathy starts)</p><p>* <strong>Resonance</strong> (letting sound carry, not pushing it)</p><p>* <strong>Articulation strength</strong> (clarity without strain)</p><p>One line that stuck with everyone: tension kills vibration. </p><p><strong>Practical vocal health </strong></p><p>* Why hydration is a long game (not a pre-exam fix)</p><p>* The power of <strong>“vocal naps”</strong> </p><p>* How to use <strong>humming and yawning</strong> as reset tools</p><p>* What to do when there’s <strong>pain or coughing</strong> </p><p><strong>A full, teachable warm-up</strong></p><p>Imogen shared a complete warm-up structure built around a “vocal shower” metaphor: playful, memorable and effective.</p><p>It moved through:</p><p>* <strong>Waking up the body</strong> (yawn + stretch)</p><p>* <strong>Breath connection</strong> (fricative “steam” sounds)</p><p>* <strong>Resonance activation</strong> (gentle vibration work)</p><p>* <strong>Range exploration</strong> (sirens without strain)</p><p>* <strong>Articulation</strong> (speaking with ease, not effort)</p><p><strong>Solving the three most common student issues</strong></p><p>This is where things got especially useful for teaching:</p>
March 31, 2026
Teaching LAMDA in Different Settings
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://gabimaddocks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7">gabimaddocks.substack.com</a><br/><br/><p>Our March Meet Up focused on teaching LAMDA in various settings, and we discussed different teaching environments and their challenges. We explored: </p><p>* Teaching Online via Zoom/Google Meet: which subjects work best</p><p>* The Challenges of Teaching in Students’ Homes: managing behaviour when the parent is in earshot!</p><p>* School-based Teaching and the various payment models: Admin vs Profit</p><p>* Profit Margins in Different Settings: don’t forget to factor in indirect costs</p><p>* <strong>A Cost-Profit Breakdown Calculator designed by me, just for Speech and Drama teachers</strong></p><p>You can find out all the details by watching the video above OR by listening to the podcast on Spotify (just make sure you link your Substack email address to your Spotify account to get access to the entire episode, and all the previous ones too). </p><p>If you don’t have an hour spare to watch/listen… then here’s a summary of what we covered, and of course the very helpful spreadsheet - you fill in your income and costs per class, and the spreadsheet will calculate your profit per class and across the whole year. You can see in an instant what the loss/benefit will be if you add or take away a student, increase the teacher’s fee or increase the cost to parents. This is how I double check that every class I’m running stays in profit… and if it isn’t I can see what the easiest fix would be. </p><p>Teaching Online via Zoom/Google Meet:</p><p>Some subjects lend themselves more easily to online lessons: Verse and Prose, and Speaking in Public - there are no requirements about effective use of performance space. When teaching Acting/Devising online then make sure the student has a good set up, with a clearly marked performance space that fulfils the requirements of an ROA Exam. You can find these <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lamda.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Version_9_ROA_Guide_for_Private_Centres_February_2026.pdf">in this guide</a>, which clearly explains the floor space required and how much of the student needs to be visible to the examiner for each exam (e.g. waist up, knees up, feet up). Of course you can teach online and still prepare students for live exams - in which case, my recommendation would definitely be to have the final three or four lessons in person. </p><p>Parents like not having to leave the house so it makes it easier for them, and it opens up new opportunities like teaching students in other countries. For example, teaching students in China means that you can work online in the morning with overseas students, and after-school doing live or Zoom lessons for UK students.</p><p>Costs are low, except for a pro Zoom account which is less than £20/month, and you can have students coming back to back without a gap in between for pick ups/drop offs etc - so it is a very economical way of teaching. </p><p> </p><p>Teaching in Students’ Homes</p><p>The logistical challenge here is covering the costs of public transport/petrol/parking and travel time for what might be quite a short lesson, if it’s 1:1. This can be overcome by teaching for more hours by including siblings (e.g. three siblings for 30 minutes each gives you 1.5 hours teaching time), or charging parents for your travel time as well as your contact time. If you’re lucky you can also find several families within a very short distance of each other, giving you just a few minutes travel time between each one. </p><p>Another challenge is managing behaviour - this can be more difficult in a student’s home than in a school setting, especially when parents are present and allow behaviours that wouldn’t be tolerated in a classroom (e.g. eating during the lesson or jumping on the sofa). </p><p></p><p>School-based Teaching</p><p>There are two main models that I have come across here, and the one that works best depends largely on why the school is offering LAMDA classes to their students:</p>
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