Interactions

The Basics

• Be friendly and happy
• Get students attention by being enticing
• Motivate interest by stimulating the senses
• Stage and jump between appropriate processes for the interaction.
• Break interaction into actionable steps
• Build procedural knowledge through modelling and repetition
• Observe micro-development and REDUCE critical breaks 
• Adjust time for ability and interest
• Incorporate groups to increase time-in-interaction 
• Repeat the EAT (Exercise, Activity, Task ) till students have internalize the steps 
• Model the means to maintain a positive experience
• Define roles that empower responsibilities
• Challenge mastery, autonomy and creative control

Links

• edutopia – Tone of Voice
• TEFL Training Institute – Independent Play in English with young learners 
• Teach Thought – What it Means to Teach
• Very Well Family – Non-Verbal Skills
• Wikipedia – Linguistic Landscapes
• Hechinger Report – Guided Play VS. Direct Instruction
• Dark Horse Podcast – Chapter 11 – Recover from Helicopter Parenting
• JPP – Messages for Parents with Jordan Peterson

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