I am a brand new WBT and the success I have had in a new (to me) school this year has been beyond my wildest dreams. I came up with a gesture that may or may not be new, but was inspired by the method.

One of my problems in elementary has always been kids telling each other what to do. "No, you sit here, not there". etc. or tattling "Joe isn't in his right seat". It is very disruptive. So now when that happens, I take a page from the old show "Dinosaurs". If you aren't familiar, there was a baby dinosaur who was always hitting the daddy dinosaur over the head with a frying pan saying, "Not the mama, not the mama, not the mama!" What I do is hit myself (pretend, of course) in my forehead with my fist (three times) saying, "I'm the teacher, I'm the teacher, I'm the teacher!" Then the children point back at me and say, "You're the teacher, you're the teacher, you're the teacher!" They have gotten a kick out of that and it has reduced a lot of those common problem.