Four outstanding CI teachers share their 2 min tips
You planned a great CI/TPRS lesson, you have visuals, gestures, word wall supports. You're asking great questions, but the students aren't answering. What do you do? Check out my new 1 Page Guide to in-the-moment moves you need to make for Adjustments to Choral Response. Students who are confident and feel successful in your class WILL give a robust response. Here's how.
Blurting! On topic, off topic, they know the answer but think it's hilarious to give the wrong answer. Or they really really don't get what we are doing (everyone was yelling things, so I just randomly yelled something too-- why is the teacher mad?) We all have them.
Use daily to establish routines and to teach & practice expectations for how to participate appropriately in the CI classroom.
Your "angel" classes may not need this every day, but your "high flyer" classes might.
post a slide as a transition to new CI activity to level set movement, voice level, how to participate, etc
You planned a great CI / TPRS lesson. You have visuals, word walls, engaging content (like a Star of the Week, movie talk, a class story, a current event or cultural practice that you have simplified to make it comprehensible to your students). But only some of your students are listening.
You know you need to honor the "no forced output" principal, and also know that only the students who are actually listening are acquiring language.
Here are 5 strategies to consider that help you hold ALL your students accountable for their Active Listening.