These RT posts will necessarily be disjointed. It’s all we can do – Jason hasn’t written the book yet. Let’s just piece together things as best we can, then, as we get some intellectual understanding, we can move to putting it into our bodies. I can’t wait to get to that point. It looks like great fun!
This post touches (only that!) on discipline in RT classes:
Jason tells them that:
– their job is to watch and listen.
– they will be held accountable.
– they must make eye contact with him.
– they have to keep their hands on the table. If he sees them with their hands on the table, he immediately says, “Dum de dum dum…Class, there is a problem.” And he corrects the person who is or at least looks like they are texting, using the guilt card.
During the workshop he talked about metacognition and how important the self awareness, self reflection piece is in RT. What he said paralleled our recent discussion on metacognition here begun by Robert in May.
The big point here is that metacognition and proper use of our planned RT template will bring all the discipline we need. The kids will be too busy thinking about how they are learning while at the same time being entertained and being made to read what they are seeing that they won’t have time to act out. All we have to do is hone our craft and we will gain complete control over our classrooms.