Ok, I heard about the page number procedure last year and used it with great success in my classroom.

I just found the Six Common Procedures page of the website. I'm interested in trying the others...but I'm wondering about the whole cheering and clapping thing.

If you do this, please give me some more info. How do you introduce this to the class? How do you practice it? I'm imagining that it may look like chaos to the untrained eye, but result in order- am I correct? Do the kids really like to keep up the cheering all year? Or do you have to make some changes or increase the rewards?

Thanks for your help!

Allison

I tried this with my kindergarteners this year, but was unsuccessful. But I know that it works with older kids and it would have eventually worked with my Kindergarteners, but I guess I dropped the ball on it.

We tried it at a workshop I attended last summer and its really neat the way it works. It definitely looks like chaos to the untrained WBT eye, but by the time you introduce this, I'm sure you would have used a lot of the other WBT techniques successfully. I like doing the 'Yada Yada' with my students and they get really loud for a moment, but if a 'passer by' stays and watching it from beginning to end, they understand your reasoning. And why not? It's so much fun for the students!

I'd probably start with other techniques and introduce this after the first few weeks. what I was able to do successfully while my students passed out papers is recite rules for the class, math, spelling, skip counting, etc. Even though it's kind of the same thing, they worked better with this, than the clapping and cheering.

Good luck,

Noris

The cheering and clapping is a fun addition,but isn't something you have to do. I would say, go out of your comfort zone and give it a chance, you'd be surprised how much they like permission to make noise...but if you're in a space where that just isn't reasonable, you don't HAVE to do it. You can still have the papers, lines, seats, page ___,etc... And they try to beat the clock. They could evendothejeopardy theme song or something....