Students are always exactly where they are, and if we express something in three seconds, and they need four, it is up to us to slow our speech down to their level and not expect the reverse to magically happen. When we do this, we exhibit and practice empathy.
The TPRS Community rightly points to the importance of SLOW in their trainings, but I couldn’t always remember it because when I was doing TPRS I was trying to think of so many other things, but when I started doing WBYT, I started speaking slowly enough all the time.
We must develop compassion and empathy for what our students are experiencing. If we could develop and put into practice this empathy, and combine it with WBYT, we would derive results we could not have predicted.