I like to think about how I taste the words when I speak to my students. The food I present in class must taste good to me and to them. Are the words I say tasty? Do they convey happiness? Do they have little sprinkles on them? Or do I say the words too fast and tinged with a little fear that my students won’t understand them?
Kids pick up on fear in any form. They don’t like it. They want our speech to be happy, sparkly, slow and in short word chunks that they can understand, and delivered in smiles. The word chunks must be the right size. We should set before our students a nice meal that they can digest without getting confused.
A metaphor would be that if we are presenting them with a pizza in the form of a story, we wouldn’t set before them just one piece of pepperoni, because they are hungry, nor would we ask them to cram a whole piece of pizza in their mouths at once. We have to learn how to speak in the right size chunks, and the food has to taste good to them.
The Problem with CI
Jeffrey Sachs was asked what the difference between people in Norway and in the U.S. was. He responded that people in Norway are happy and
