We had a DPS Learning Lab hosted by Annick Chen today. Two takeaways that I got were:
1. We were talking about gesturing and Paul Kirschling said, “It’s dead if I don’t gesture and make them gesture.” This struck me because I am so lame with gesturing. I even forget to do it in PQA. I think it takes a special kind of wiring to maintain discipline, deliver slow and clear CI, keep one’s cheerfulness groove going, and then adding in gesturing is just to much to think about. But I also know how important it is. David (Maust) are you still doing a lot of gesturing?
My other takeaway was that good things happen when we exaggerate the time in Point a Pause – the pauses should be longer. We were talking about how many kids honestly get a word when it is laser pointed to. It’s not like we dissed the use of the laser pointer, we just explored the idea of strolling over to the word and kind of grabbing it and expanding the pause.
And then, another really important point here, is that not only do we want to slow down on the pointing and stroll over there and give it some good wait time, we also want to gesture the word it if possible.
So expanding the wait time in Point and Pause and gesturing at the same time. More processing time for the kids! Lori this could be at least one thing that addresses your questions today.