Oh Class! Oh Yes! Whole Brain Teaching Video of My Class!

Happy Monday! I have a super busy week! I got a new student today, report cards are due tomorrow, and I need to blog!
It seemed to me that a lot of you guys were interested in seeing more of Whole Brain Teaching or WBT (for short). So, I decided to tape myself {eek!} and my class today while we were practicing our class rules! You will also see some other WBT strategies such as, Class-Yes, Hands and Eyes, and the oh so famous Scoreboard. You can't see the scoreboard but it is a little whiteboard with a smily and a frowny face. I will go more in depth with the scoreboard in another post! I just really wanted to show you how we practice and observe the rules in my classroom! Here it is: Video will be updated! You just saw me get my class' attention by saying "oh class" and they responded by saying "oh yes". It is super easy to establish and to use all the time. You can vary how you say it. You can whisper, shout, say it with an accent or even add something silly like "oh oh oh sweet darling class" and the students have to say "oh oh oh sweet darling yes". You will see more of the complicated ones in other videos. I wanted to keep it simple ;)

If the smileys win for the day, the class gets a reward. I am using small rewards such as, doing the Cha Cha Slide, Tony Chestnut, listening to Justin Bieber or BTR, and today's reward was the YMCA! They love these types of rewards. Like Chris Biffle says, "It's a long, long, year". So save your big rewards for the end!

Ha! I noticed some kiddos not doing what is expected! The goal is to get 100% engagement but sometimes it falls short! I've got to say that it is pretty darn close to 100% though!

You might've noticed that my class is an ELD class. That means that they are ALL English Language Learners. Their first language is Spanish and I can't say enough how much WBT has helped my ELLs! They love the gestures and the repetition!

Enough rambling about WBT and how wonderful it is! I hope you enjoyed the video and I would love to know if you would like to see more. I couldn't find my Flip Cam so I had to use my handy dandy iPhone. I don't think the quality is too bad! I searched high and low for my Flip Cam. In the process, I found 40 bucks, my amazing Burt's Bees lip balm, and these cute tiny scissors that I had forgotten I had! You always find other things when looking for something else.

I quickly wanted to mention some awesome giveaways that are going on out here in Blogland!




Peace Love Learning is giving away a MLK Jr. Unit!! It would be perfect for later this week or next Tuesday!




Amy over at the Resource(ful) Room is giving away a $20 gift card to Target!

Rachel is giving away her Winter Math Packet to one lucky follower!

Alright Lovies that's it for tonight! Talk to you later!!!