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At Burton’s School
Meet and Greet
General Guidelines:
- Get to know the parents and the students
- Make sense of their needs and wants
- Respond in ways that provide the information they seek
- Let parents and students get a sense of who you are and what you do
- Interact in ways that stimulate the whole body
- Allow time for students to adjust to your style
- Achieve certain levels of task actualization
- Build trust through repetitive interactions
- Be interesting
- Enjoy being together
Learn more about Rhett and Lisa’s Year Book Presentation at the 2023 National Kotesol Conference
Using Tools and Doing Projects
General Guidelines:
- Do projects
- Stimulate the desire to do the project
- Build and practice skills that lead to task fullfillment
- Show and tell the steps
- Look for ways to support the students
- Finish the task when students have a sense of task achievement (or not)
- Listen to songs that are interesting to the students as they do projects.
Playing Games
- Get buy-in for a game
- Model the game play
- Expect language in use
- Model problem solving strategies
- Be aware of critical breaks (fair, win, lose)
- Manage chaos when the game play hits a critical break.
Reading Books
General Guidelines:
- Use interesting books
- Be interested in the book
- Use eyes and voices to make things more interesting
- Use your finger to highlight interesting words and pictures
- Connect books to other interesting content (as a springboard)
- Have fun with books