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Consequences Poster Discussion (About Rigor) 1
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8 thoughts on “Consequences Poster Discussion (About Rigor) 1”
AWESOME! Truly Powerful! I love the tenacity! There is so much to learn in these words.
THANK YOU Ben!!!!! WOW….what a great post for starting my day. It has been a ROUGH week and I have been lacking “cheerfulness”. BUT, I came in today with some cheerfulness bc my three difficult students will be out today and Monday. I am looking forward to a fun class. So, now this gives me two days to start to implement this refocus and be prepared for the rest of the year.
I loved this post. It is so encouraging. It is hard these last few weeks of school. The other day I got mad at my class because a lot of the class wouldn’t PQA with me, so I had them write out some sentences instead. Going home I was thinking oh no what if they won’t answer questions anymore, what will I do, etc., but then the next day I was cheerful and I passed out the individual whiteboards and had them draw my CI instead of answering questions and it went really well. I didn’t think it would be okay to just work with those who want to work, but I will keep that in mind in the last 18 days of school.
That is a big one – work with those who want to work. Oftentimes, I find myself giving those who DON’T want way too much attention because I seem to (mistakenly?) think that all they want is attention. At the same time, I’m leaving the ones who are with me all the time and give me their all 100% of the time by the wayside. Not fair to them. I have to remind myself that this late in the game, I will probably not be able to bring the refusers around (although one of them told me yesterday that he is going to miss me next year – I though to myself, you’ll see next year how much you will REALLY miss me when you have to go back to the grammar sheets).
So, cheerful I am today, as most days because it’s still the best job in the world!
…you’ll see next year how much you will REALLY miss me when you have to go back to the grammar sheets….
LOL
I was with Laurie and Lea and others in DC. The described behavior seems to be a universal lament. They do seem to slip in to a “teach me, I dare you” behavior at the end of the year. I have no answers. Sad.
I too was at Laurie’s in DC on Thursday (thank you Lea & Sidwell Friends!) and came away with a lot of ideas on how to make it through these last 4 weeks without giving up on CI. Here are a few:
1) Word of the day: assign one student to say a specific new expression every time you point to him/her (more than just “p-e-e-ero” or “Quién means who”). I have a couple of 2nd grade boys who can’t seem to stay focused and this is just the ticket for bringing them back from outer space.
2) Quick acting gigs: Have two kids pop up just to act out one sentence, such as “Juan gives the milk to Mamá.” My classes love to act, and I always get bogged down in major productions, rather than these delightful little pop-up acting opportunities. Plenty for everybody to do, and easier for me to keep track of who’s had a turn.
3) Making students complicit in restoring order: as you are waiting for silence, look around the room, make eye contact with every student.
4) We need to communicate to the students that they are the most important thing, not the language.
5) Provide short opportunities for output with well-practiced language: Turn to your neighbor and tell her that Juan and Mamá live in a purple house. Now answer back that the cow lives in the purple house too.
6) Don’t forget to give students credit for *recognizing* language, even if they don’t remember what it means.
7) Write several expressions on the board and don’t talk about all of them, but see if any students figure out the unmentioned ones and use them, then praise them for being so smart, thereby motivating others to notice what’s on the board.
And now Ben’s reminder to BE CHEERFUL. It sounds so easy and I know it works every time, but I just keep forgetting and letting the kids get under my skin. I have 17 more days of teaching. I will go slower, be cheerier, engage them more consistently, and know that if it isn’t perfect this time around, there’s always next year! That’s the best part about teaching.
Thank you so much, Anny! These little tricks are so helpful at this time of the year, when all I need for the last couple of days (besides cheerfulness!) is a little change in the way I do things. I know I need to put tweaks in, but I get into ruts. I guess that I need some sort of irregular pop-up note with different tweaks every so often.
Hmm…maybe I’ve just described Ben’s blog!