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Participating vs. Observing – Time Outs
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After my first week of CI-TPRS post-Maine, I am exhausted like Dirk (GDV–Grazie a Dio e’ venerdi’!), but recharged at the same time! Everyone in Maine was amazing and I learned SO MUCH. I came back to my classroom like a discipline machine, rearranged the seats, put up signs, pulled down others, went over some rules. I was a TPRS Tasmanian Devil! On Friday, I did have to separate 2 from the group as you suggested Ben. I’ve always thought sending a kid out was like a free pass to relax-ville. But we were having fun and I knew these kids didn’t want to miss a second. They went to the outer ring where no one sits and were silent for 5 minutes, all the while dying to get back in on the action. Success!
I don’t have these super huge classes like others who are posting–my largest is 20, which is fine, but my smallest are 8 (!) and 10. There’s definitely a difference in energy and flow, but it’s working. If you all hadn’t mentioned that a small class is tough,I wouldn’t have realized it. I just make it all work because I believe it can. I have so much confidence that there’s no chink in my armor for them to think it will all fall apart, or worse, that they can make it fall apart. If there’s a moment where the story/method/CI is teetering, I ask them what we’re doing on this dead-end street and I literally put the story in reverse–I grab my imaginary gearstick, put it in reverse, make my peel out sound and away we go in another direction, away from the dead end. Needless to say, we crack up a lot and I need to remember to wear waterproof mascara! Ha!
I still haven’t tried to get my Smartboard in on the action as we talkd about at the workshop. That can be next week’s project. If anyone else uses their Smartboard to write new vocab during stories, etc, can you post how it works for you?
Thanks for this blog, Ben…it’s a Nexus of Great Minds! I’d be lost without it!
Ciao–Johnna
How did this work over the past couple of years?
Guess first and then I’ll tell you.