Using WBT techniques, describe how you would teach your students to efficiently perform a classroom procedure (not described in this chapter).
This past year my class became masters at the 3-peat. After learning the ways to pass papers, line up, go to our seats and turn book pages, we quickly began 3-peating everything. Being an eMints classroom we needed a signal for turning on computers, loging onto the internet, switching the mouse or keyboard to the other partner, turning on and off lights and the projector and so much more. My students surprised me! One area that I enjoyed the 3-peat was during vocabulary work. When we were looking up definitions, synonyms and antonyms in the dictionary, the students would 3-peat the word back to me and then scurry in their books to find the definition. As soon as they would find the word they would shout our the page number and the rest of the class would 3-peat so all could read along. Here is how this was taught.
Teacher: Class, I do!
Students: Yes, I do!
Teacher: Since you all have become so great at the 3-peat around the classroom with our normal daily procedures, we are going to practice this within a subject. Each week we practice vocabulary and find the information of each word. This week we might just be ready for a high intensity round of Vicious Vocabulary! Turn to your partner and teach them what I just said! Teach!
Students: Okay!
Teacher: Class, oh greatness!
Students: Yes, oh greatness!
Teacher: Who wants to know about our new game? (Students begin to beg to learn the new game.) Mirror words, (students activate mirrors by saying mirror words and putting their hands up.) Vicious Vocabulary (pause for students to repeat) is a game where you will race (pause) to see who can find our vocabulary word in the dictionary (pause) the fastest! Turn to your partner and teach them what I just said. Ta-Ta-Teach (like you are sneezing).
Students: Ta-Ta- Okay!
Teacher: Classity cool!
Students: Yessity cool!
Teacher: When I call out the vocabulary word you will 3-peat the word. Tu-tu-Teach!
Students: Tu-tu, okay!
Teacher: Class-ka-tool!
Students: Yes-ka-tool!
Teacher: So when I call out the vocabulary word and you 3-peat the word you will open your dictionary and search frantically for our vocabulary word. Toon-tastic teach!
Students: Toon-tastic Okay!
Teacher: Classity oh my!
Students: Yessity oh my!
Teacher: Mirror words! So I will call out the word (pause for all to repeat), you will 3-peat it (pause) and frantically search for the word (pause). When you find the word, (pause) you will call out the page number and wave your hands quietly above your head (pause). Once all students have their hands in the air (pause), we will investigate the word! Teach!
Students: Okay!
Teacher: Let’s practice! Voyage!
Students: Voyage, voyage, voyage! (Students shouts out the number, 326, and waves hands in the air. Wait for all hands in the air.)
Teacher: Coo-coo-class!
Students: Coo-coo yes!
Teacher: What page?
Students: 326, 326, 326!
Teacher: Great! Lets practice again. Harbor!
Students: Harbor, harbor, harbor. (Students do the same as before. Each new practice time the students get faster.)
Teacher: Class, oh my!
Students: Yes, oh my!
Teacher: You have gotten so good at this. Next time I suspect you will be even better at this game. Great teaching! High five your partner!
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