debor078

I'm decorating my room this year with a bright colored tropical theme.  So of course I had to make new Whole Brain Teaching posters! Included: The 5 Rules Class Yes Teach? Ok! The Tickler Switch Mirror Hands and Eyes Click the picture to download from Google Drive! I hole punched the strategies and attached them all with a binder ring.  This way, when I am introducing and reading from the back, the students can see the poster on the front for a visual. The best thing about these posters, is that I also made scripts for how to introduce each rule and strategy.  I made them in a circle outline to fit on the back of these circle tropical posters, but they will also fit on the back of any WBT poster you use.   Click the picture to download the scripts from Google Drive What theme are you decorating with this year? I'm linking up with Manic Monday !

To start at the beginning of this book club with me: Buy the book  Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids Read about Chapters 1 & 2 here Read about Chapters 3 & 4 here Read about Chapter 5 here  Read about Chapter 6 here Read about Chapter 7 here Read about Chapters 8-10 here Read about Chapter 11 here Join the Official Book Study here I'm back with my thoughts on two more WBT techniques: Mirror & Hands and Eyes. Mirror is when you want students to mimic your gestures or to even repeat after you.  The teacher says "Mirror".  The students respond with "Mirror" and start to mirror the teacher's motions.  There are three main types of gestures that you can use while teaching: Casual - the hands motions that you would normal use while talking Graphic - motions that match what you are saying.  The gestures for the rules are graphic {Say "Raise your hand.." while raising your hand.} Memory - these are gestures to help you remember a fact,

To start at the beginning of this book club with me: Buy the book Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids Read about Chapters 1 & 2 here Read about Chapters 3 & 4 here Read about Chapter 5 here  Read about Chapter 6 here Read about Chapter 7 here Read about Chapters 8-10 here Join the Official Book Study here The Scoreboard is WBT's classroom management tool.  They don't use clip charts, stoplights, or card-pulling systems.  They don't use stickers charts, prize boxes, or classroom money.  They use tally marks for when the class is good and tally marks for when the class is not so good.  They are explicit about the good and not so good behavior and they have kids working for the teeniest little reward - and the kids love it!   I've created some pretty huge freebies for you - 50 pages worth of Scoreboards and introductions.  This freebie has two products - one that is just Scoreboards: portrait and landscape of 5 different designs, then additional Scoreboards f