Welcome to Daybak by Burton School.
I am Rhett Burton. I aspire to be life long learner.
Let's engage with things that help students to learn English.
Aggregated Insights
In the Beginning,
Consciousness
Time, Energy
the Matter of Things
Living Laws
Sense of Self
Self in Relations
Our Body and Beliefs
Evolution of Thoughts
S.S.iiL.Y
Actions and Words +
Act Here and Now
Then and There
Past, Present, Future
Language in Use
Complementing Tools
General Practices
Specifics Systems
Content Library
Music, Journals, Symbol and Words, Stories, Tools, Games, Puzzles, Blocks, Food
The Absurd
System at play
Problems and Solutions
Try to solve problems that don't exist
On Bullshit and Wild Goose Chases
The difference between poop and bean paste
Complementing Tools
General Practices: I am teacher with students. We will attend to social play through interesting content. We will do things that gets action from the whole body. We will develop AQ ,SQ, EQ, AQ through things that matter. Ready, Aim, Fire.
Specifics Systems
General Practices: I am teacher with students. We will attend to social play through interesting content. We will do things that gets action from the whole body. We will develop AQ ,SQ, EQ, AQ through things that matter. Ready, Aim, Fire.
Materials that Matters
#Music
Select a song that catches the ear, compels the tongue and elicits desired language in use.
Content Library - Songs - What's Your Name?
#Aiming Practice,
#Self in Relations,
#Language in Use - lyrics
Use songs to guide 'self' and students to draw and write journals. Sing the main chorus.
Content Stacking - learn songs in relation to pictures.
I am Rhett
#here and now 2025
#Then and there - 1986
Songs shape our perceptions, mood, actions, narratives and our reasons for shining.
#Content
#songs, images, text, youtube - Rhett's playlist to help frame his context
Complementing Tools
Music - What on your playlist?
#Slice of Life - Journals
Develop a sense of cohesion as we aspire to be teacher, students, learners in society.
#Self in Relations - teacher, students, learners, parents
#General Practices - Meet, Greet and be together
We make time in our schedule to do things that have a good return on investments. On action. In action. For action.
Student's parents invested 200 dollars a month for 10 years of guided support through kindergarten, elementary school and middle school.
#Content Library - We will...
#time, #energy, #matter of things
Pursuit opportunities that yield fruitful endeavors.
#Evolution of Self
They invested 24000$ for a weekly guidance into memorizing, learning and understanding English in the world.
#Beliefs and Rational - Embody language through action. Learn by doing.
#Content "The Year Book"
Complementing Tools
Pictures - How do you curate pictures?
Images, Words, Letters +
The Phonics Song - Couple images, text, words and sounds to meaningful practices. Tune the body to receive and produce language with fluency and accuracy.
Construct an A to Z dictionary in the brain.
#Content Library
#Operating System
Apples and Bananas - Use letters to make and break the code. Present opportunities to practice ways thats produces good feedback on encoding and decoding text through meaning.
Couple the sound of music with reading.
#Content Library
#general practices
Johnny Appleseed - A is for apple. a a apple.
What comes to mind when you think of teaching about apples?
#Self in Relations - Representations - I use what I have. I have variety of content that fulfil students' needs, wants and interests.
#Content Library
#books, #games, #puzzles, #Block, #Phonics, #Songs, #Outdoors, #Projects, #Images, #Words
Complementing Tools
Symbol and text - What do you see?
Slice of Life Burton School's application.
Story Plays
Pull out Information wrapped in old wife tales. A story can guide your imagination down a path of a thousand actions in a single sitting.
#Self in Relations - listen to the tall tales told by adults around tables.
Raise awareness to the context. Guide the students' perception to reveal obstacles for the characters to navigate. Model strategies that spotlight perspectives.
#evolution of thoughts
Use characters to build character. Highlight virtues and vices as characters and students use systyem 1 thinking to move through obstacles, episodes and seasons
#evolution of thoughts
ahha - learn, unlearn, relearn stories at different stages of development. Appreciate the richness of system 2 thinking.
Complementing Tools
Stories - What story are you telling these days?
Tools
I am because we are. I am a whole being in a whole world
Attend to the world with the tools you got. All parts in a whole. Open up to possibilities and close on certainty. Grasp for the tools. Use them. Put them down. Reflect on the outcomes. Make better judgements by being s.s.i.i.l.y.
greater then the Sum
Spiritual, Science, Imagination, Intuition, Logic and Yourself
we are naive. We mature
system 1 and system 2
Complementing Tools
Stories - How are you embodying learning?
Games
Play games students have access to. Play it to their level of maturity. Practice the game play with the language in tandem. Reward the how. Reflect in action.
Take picture. Co-create general practices to help students predict you and the other players. Apply research from researchers and discuss it through conversation.
Find a mentor. Pay a teacher. Take a course that is flexible and adaptable to your context. Challenge what you know and what you are learning for new ahhas.
Complementing Tools
Stories - Do you play games?
Blocks and Puzzle
Insights about blocks.
Insights about blocks.
Insights about blocks.
Complementing Tools
Stories -Do you ever use blocks, puzzles, toys and things?
Thank you for visiting my table.
My name is Rhett Burton.
I'd love to help you in your journey as a TESOL teacher.