Are you baffled at classroom management for your young students in kindergarten and first grade? Sometimes engaging and getting the attention of your primary students is as simple as telling a story. Here are some tips and tricks that are rooted in culture and sociology.
How to Mesmerize the Young Ones
You’ve tried your attention clap rhythm or your “Class,” “Yes,” or your LOUD voice, and there’s still chaos. Two little ones are turned toward each other deep in conversation, another is lying on their back, one is taking the bar on the nearby xylophone and slowly lifting, lowering, lifting, lowering. There are three that are looking back at you (bless them) and the rest…are not.
I was reading the article, “How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger”, and this paragraph stood out.
For thousands of years, the Inuit have relied on an ancient tool with an ingenious twist: “We use storytelling to discipline,” Jaw says.
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