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9 Bail Out Moves
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6 thoughts on “9 Bail Out Moves”
Looks great! It’s really just a restatement of what I’ve learned from you and the others on this blog. Thanks everyone! And, yes, I can’t believe I forgot about free writes!
Another thing I’ve found that helps with my classroom management is walking around and asking questions and just in general interacting with the students a bit while they’re writing or drawing. It really helps get more of a one-on-one connection that can be difficult when always doing whole-class activities. This is especially good for those really big classes where it can be hard to connect with everyone. (Which is particularly true for those big beginner classes…)
Great timing Bryan! I just had a very sketchy day yesterday…likely due to post-homecoming fatigue (mostly mine as I was on duty all day Friday / Friday night / Sat. night). I noticed (afterward) that I was a bit impatient. Oops.
Today I did “listen and translate” with one group and “dictado” with another, followed by a song. I will indeed write this list up in my notebook so it’s handy 🙂
Totally agree re: walking around and chatting up the kids individually. Depending on the kid I use L1 or L2 since I know which kids are comfortable in L2. IT’s all the same to me: connect however I can!
One of the hiding in the hoody kids, yesterday for the first time cracked a smile! And today he actually laughed! Yay!
Yes.. I can do some of these with my 4th and 5th graders. Gives some other kids jobs too (passing out papers/pencils)
Mindee, I used to sub for elementary. It’s no joke. You need to setup a procedure for EVERYTHING and model it tons of times. Patience is key here I am sure. After they get conditioned, they will fail into the routine. Have you connected with any elementary teachers? It would be good to document/ keep a log of your CI journey. As Ben has said, someone has to write a short book or guide for elementary TPRS/CI. Hang in there. We are all in this.
It’s impressive the power of just stopping to type on the screen after all that interactive CI stuff so students can sit down and meditate on some translations. My 8th period needs this break from CI everyday, whereas my 7th period not so much at all really. My 7th period seems to enjoy hanging out in the language much more.
Bryan, could you share what kinds of games you play in your #6?