Mark Baxter asks what mix teaching actually is, then answers it with three interacting systems - vocology, neurology and psychology - and how to work any of them.

Mark Baxter opens the conference by arguing that every lesson you teach is really three systems at once. You'll get the vocology loop of airflow, fold behaviour and resonance; the neurology of neurons and myelin, and why a vowel chart works for one student while modelling, placement, speech-based cueing or choir singing works for another; and the psychology of beliefs, reconstructed memories and the language your students use - why he never lets anyone say 'my voice' instead of 'I', why 'because' builds self-fulfilling prophecies, and why 'yet' changes everything. Plus context, boundaries, and the household culture that programmed all of it.