Steps Forward

Are you here?

  1. To Be (Public Memories)
    1. Me, You, Us
    2. We Seek
    3. To Care
  2. To Sense
    1. Sensed
    2. Flow with it
    3. Good, True, and Beautiful
  3. To Will
    1. Engage
    2. Express
    3. Experience

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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

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Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs 

Updated by Scott Barry Kaufman