Why on earth didn’t I do jGR before? It’s like a left jab boxing glove on the kids’ unruliness. Loving wallops that MAKE THEM SHOW UP FOR CLASS. Amazing. jGR has significantly made my teaching better. We’re in week four and we have the same excellent focus that we had in week one. Unexcused absences and tardies […]
Here’s a riff you may want to add in when your actors are doing dialogue. Ask the class (Professeur 2 breaks all class stalemates on answers) if the policeman or whomever said it or yelled it or whispered it. The whispering is really very effective. Don’t have them just say something, have them yell it
As per Nathan Black, the Sound Effects Guru is the kid with a Smartphone and scrolls through the different sound effects available on that app. It is often hilarious to be in the middle of a sentence and be interrupted by a sound that perfectly describes what just happened in the previous sentence. Often I ask for applause – all
I have to add this Anne Matava story to my list of favorites in terms of basically kicking ass: Let’s Start! were just about to eat Let’s start! started to The Smith family were just about to eat. Dad said, “Let’s start!” They started eating, and there was a knock on the door. Britney Spears came
I think we get unnecessarily fooled by the method. It’s not all that hard. Circling is overated, in my opinion, and not as big a deal as everybody makes it as long as we have these other three things of SLOW, Staying in Bounds, and Checking for Understanding. I think that our focus should be
