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 and cell phone use are way down – not a single cell phone have I seen in use yet during class this year! And in my 3/4 class a group of four junior girls who tested me by cutting class over the first few weeks have stopped and two of them acted in a story today – did a great job – in order to get extra credit on their failing grades and they ended up having fun!
The kicker is the power of jGR to just transform staring children into active listeners, into participants, into actors, PQA counters, mais bleaters, door knocker people, etc. It’s an amazing thing, beyond any hope I had for being able to finally deal with the bump on a log syndrome or the blurting syndrome or the cardboard cutout of a human being syndrome.
Dang, dang, and double dang. jen I owe you big time. You found a magic bean!