Whole Brain Teaching: 6th Grade, Classroom Management
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- A lesson in the order of operations for a 6th grade class, demonstrating Whole Brain Teaching classroom management system. More information about Whole Brain Teaching is available from Chris Biffle, CBiffle@AOL.com. Or visit our website, www.powerteachers.org.
Speaking of the ultimate classroom management, this is so advanced level of management and pulling the class to listen fully and actively. This way, the explanation is done within 10 minutes and the rest is just all fun and games while practicing.
I was able to sit in a classroom and watch this teaching method for a full day. Wow...I was blown away at the excitement in the room. 98% of the kids were on task and learning at all times, very very few behavior issues, and it was a fun environment that moved constantly! I'd take this style over the old styles anyday!!
I love the active involvement and energy of this lesson...
Someone told me about Power Teaching, so I started watching these videos and am now using it in my 6th grade classes. I'm having SO much fun with this! The kids like it, too. I use in in the beginning for our Do Nows and in direct teaching. Other teaching goes on, too. Students ask questions and work in groups, etc. Power Teaching works wonders in getting the class's attention. The point system works! I've never had so much fun, and I've been teaching a LOOOOOONG time. :)
As a teacher, this is so humbling to watch. This teacher completely rocks!
It's because all of the criticizers don't know anything about teaching. Everyone HAS to memorize PEMDAS before they can apply it to problems. This teacher is just being creative with it. Please know that rote memorization IS involved in actual learning objectives. You have to memorize things sometimes and there's no way out of it.
Oh wow! I am blown away! This teacher uses so many successful strategies: movement, teaching others, emotional connections (ie excitement), and procedures. These kids were engaged and held accountable for that engagement. At first, I was a little uncertain how I would feel about the video but the more I watched, the more intrigued I became. To have a whole class participating like this is incredible! Well done! I am excited to try some of these techniques!
Despite all the negative comments, not only is Whole Brain Teaching a great teaching and classroom management method, it is also highly praised by administrators. I have also seen great test scores in classrooms whose teachers use this method. If my administrator was observing me, she would be thrilled to see 100% student engagement. I leave work happy, students leave happy and wanting to learn more the next day. We have a win win situation in my classroom.
On weekends I speak to groups of Indonesian teacher, groups up to 500 at a time...and this is what I teach them...whole brain teaching. Basically I teach them class-yes and teach-ok. I have had so many thank yous via email from teachers throughut Java were I have spoken. I have been in teaching for over 30 years and thought I had seen everything. Whole brain teaching was like a breath of fresh air. Thanks Chris and Co.
This teacher as total engagement. She moves around the classroom, she has the students clap and say things as a whole class. She incorperates all types of learning. Also by having the class participate the way they do she can check very quickly of participation. These kids are having fun and learning.
Whoa ! She is an EXCELLENT teacher ! her class shows much respect and seemed to enjoy the lesson !
great engagement, repetition, and interacting with peers. love it!
This is real. As a teacher I can see her constantly changing the states of consciousness and engaging students at all learning styles. This is spot on! Nice work mam
is it real? I thought it was a play.
Engagement, enthusiasm, and reinforcement in the actual lesson. THIS is teaching!
I tried this and it works! My students were doing their homework using the gestures to help and I had parents wondering what was going on but we all concluded that it helped everyone get the right answers on material the students were struggling with! I love WBT!
Actually, I do this all the time with my class and learned this from my experience in the military with repeating, sounding off, routines, acronyms, etc...
Semper Fi!!!
I wouldn't use this all day and everyday but I have taken some inspiration from this video. 'Talk partners' is a hot topic here in the UK and I find my class are willing to talk to each other more if I start with 'clap clap teach'! They repeat it with 'ok' and off they go! It's all about finding what works for your class and my bunch struggle to focus during whole class teaching. This one little techniques has been a life saver!
I love this video and have shared it with many teachers over the last few years.
Despite the other negative comments, I must say, this was an awesome math lesson! I believe these students will never forget order of operations. Last but not least, AWESOME job reaching the kinesthetic learner- the one who is always identified as at-risk.
Remember the old saying "Practice Makes Perfect". These kids are practicing what they are learning immediately. I have seen this work in college classrooms you are never too old for this system. When you repeat it you get it. Have you ever had someone give you a phone number and you didn't have a way to take it down? What did you do? You repeated it, maybe not out loud but in your brain, over and over again.
That's all WBT emphasizes. The gestures are great for kinesthetic learners.
If any of my math teachers had used that method I would have remembered the steps in those equations! Yes, they are repeating, but repeating is how you train your brain to remember. You learn to spell by repeating over and over, you learn multiplications by repeating, you learn to write by repeatedly writing letters. All of the students are involved and participating; they are getting so much more from this than if she just lectured the 6 steps.
Speak for yourself. One does not "train" their brain "to remember. One learns how to spell by making connections between previously learned information and the new material being presented, and being challenged. Have you ever seen a spelling bee where the students ask for even the language of origin of a word? One does not "remember" how to spell
It may appear to you that they are "yelling" and not teaching. But if you spent a few minutes in the average classroom, you would realize that most children find conventional school boring and drudgery. These children rare excited about learning! Believe it or not, children LOVE structure, they enjoy talking (and this allows that in a way that helps them learn. The method is very positive and full of fun.
Great video! This takes time and great classroom management skils. I am assuming that students have heard the order of operations before hand and if not this is only an introduction. A great way to hook the students into what is going to be taught. For all you negative commentators, its obvious that the meat of the lesson is coming after this step (the anticipatory set) so what you are seeing is only a small part of the lesson. What you should all take from this is how well the students are involved with what is being taught, after this the teacher will not have to repeat herself about what PEMDAS stands for because the students will have it down.
I learned this in grade 3 (GT) 4(High math) and then relearned in grade 6( High math)as some classes didn't if we did this we would have no time to learn. With 48 minutes a class all of these gestures waste time. Do a few examples on the board and then find a way to make a game to learn it. We would get homework passes when we got problems correct quickly. That's a good way to teach, a reward when you catch on, if you don't you are taught again until known. We did that for every unit and my math teacher was my favorite because she cared about what we thought and made sure we knew the material
I like this method, because students get bored and forget easily so this method of repeating it immediately helps them memorize the information.
wow. that is amazing. i have never seen something like that, all kids are working and not just sitting around and listening!
This is unbeliebeable! I love her after 10 seconds.
On TH-cam, if you go to the teachingchannel and look for "Group Dynamics in 3rd Grade Math," you will see how this teacher taught order of operations. Actually--she didn't teach it, the students taught themselves. It is a really amazing way of teaching it, and it involves a lot of critical thinking. ...versus memorizing.
Fabulous!! I could learn in that manner where typical learning styles went over my head!!
@Butterfryby The best class I ever had, I was given 1 day to prepare, and boy did I prepare! I took the roster, made a seating chart, and when the kids came in, they didn't have to worry about finding a seat because that was decided for them. The rules were on the wall, and our first lesson was just that; rules and why we have them.
I had other classes where the kids' schedules were changed constantly in the first month, so they ended up starting late no matter what, among other things.
I have seen this instructional process in action and it does work. It is going on in our school. There is a remarkable difference from chaos and organized instruction. Do you think this is just acting? There is verbal reward and students enjoy that.
You have to be 100% on board with this if you want it to work. You can just try the Class-Yes and a couple of hand gestures. These children are clearly well-trained and that took time and extensive effort and belief that the method would work.
I don't think it would work for everyone, but I think it can be really effective in helping students to commit ideas to memory. It's like a song.
@MondoBeno Your room is what you make it. I teach in a Title 1 school 100% Free lunch that is now in level 5, 0% parental involvement. All my students have special needs because they are 6th graders. We get 1 day to set up our rooms before school starts. What this video shows me is that she works Saturdays and doesn't wine about it. She has set the standard from the beginning and modeled modeled modeled.
Its great that she has the kids very engaged in whats being taught though it is social and fun it can lack with some kids just saying whatever because they all seem to be yelling what they are being learnt though we dont know if all students are repeating the right thing
The kids who don't have partners tho! lol they just turn and face the back of the other kid and "teach". How observant and responsive the teacher is!
Engaged,alert and learning! Yay. Active learners benefit greatly.
I like it! They are totally focused and retaining the information.
Excellent !! get the students involved in the learning process, that is the key !! keep it up !
The point is, the kids enjoy working together and learning this together. It might look regimented, but when I have observed other teacers doing this, the kids seem to be really having fun. How much creativity do they need learning basic math? This seems to be very effective in the classes Ive observed, and the kids enjoy it, so I don't think its making anyone stupid or manipulated.
@MondoBeno Way to give the teacher credit where it is due. My inner city students are just as enthusiastic about their education despite parent involvement being less than stellar. My room is clean, organized and well-maintained. It is to their benefit at all times, not my own.
This is really good! And it does work! I use it all the time and the kids really get it. The best part is when they use it when they are working. I think that people who criticize this don't really know what it is about and how it works. It is too bad that Dman7sto did it (obviously incorrectly) - - I know it works, I use it and I love it! I have a very difficult class with at least 7 students who are academically challenged. They are learning and all the students all love it.
I've been thru the training. If you try this yourself, you'd be surprised. By focusing on the other guy's delivery while trying to say it yourself, you incorporate it into your brain. Kids who cannot remember in words suddenly can when they do motions. It's all about engagement. You have to be a certain kind of teacher to do the delivery like her. We have to make it more entertaining or they distract themselves.
I think this is good for getting the attention, I´m a teacher in Europe, this is considered as just repeating, good for a warm-up that´s it
I lovethis method. and i cant wait to teach it. it will keep the kids interested as well as me.
look at the site they're always trying to improve and have lots of ideas for keeping things fresh
But I do understand the initial mistrust. I am about to begin my first year teaching at a Direct Instruction school that utilizes Whole Brain teaching techniques, and it is a style of learning that I have never encountered in my life. It's been an adjustment, particularly since I am not a spirited speaker, but I have seen the results and it works. I tell myself this: I was hired to help students reach their maximum potential. I was not hired to manage a class as I see fit.
nice teaching!!!!!! i learned a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! My Latin class needs this! In Latin all people do is talk and talk and disrupts the teacher sometimes.
Why is everyone critizizing this? Every teacher has its own technique and if students learn and prove it with high notes on their exams, what is the problem?
It is very easy to use and implement on your class. It is so awesome!! I love using and my kiddos love it too!!!
Fantastic!! And the class management... awesome!!
i am pumped to have my own classroom one day!!!!
Excellent! I can't wait to try it with my class!
No behavior problems! gimme a Hallelujah!
You guys who are commenting negatively on Whole Brain Learning are misinterpreting the purpose. Power Learning retains a high level of student engagement. It ensures that everyone is on task and focused, while keeping the activity fun. It may not be for teachers who are used to doing it their way for years, but coupled with direct instruction, it is highly effective. They aren't robots. Don't robots lack emotions?
How can you tell that they are enjoying it, though? Their responses are all completely scripted, down to the "ahh!"
Class?.....
Yes?.....
Thats awesome
First, some of you missed the main part of the title to this video "CLASSROOM MANAGMENT". This video was meant to show some things you could do the keep the students engaged and learning. Secondly, PEMDAS isn't taught just in fifith grade, it is taught in the sixth grade depending on the state you live in.
Can you explain what happens if they get more smiley faces than not? I love this method it keeps everyone so alert.
Notice how her room is big, clean, and well-maintained. Next, note the students; they appear well cared for, well fed, and there's an equal mix of all races.
These kids are probably enthusiastic because their school building is luxurious, and the parents are well-involved.
I can tell that everything was in place before the teacher was assigned.
In a classroom that is run-down, with kids whose parents don't give a damn, things would be worse.
Agreed, typically less articulate, and with a greater concern that the children would not have more autonomy. They're at a point where something needs to be memorised. It's dull. If the chant helps, it helps.
You learn order of operations every year xD Hell, I had college classmates who were still asking about it.
the camera changes EVERYTHING
That's looks fun...FUN in math, wow, where was this when I was in High School, lol!
Order of operations!!! I didn't learn that until 8th grade!!!!
OK this is so different to the teaching in the UK. Yes the class are FANTASTICALLY engaged and talk partners are used well but there is not a single point in the lesson where the children get to contribute to the class - she answers all her own questions! Definitely things to learn from this (re. keeping the children engaged and fast pacing) but how does she know all the children have learnt the lesson, because I'm a bit lost with all the chanting and being excited about stuff!
OTHERWISE
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The part where she gave them a tally mark under the sad face, her instruction was to tell their partner how excited they are. Her instruction wasn’t clear the first time around.
how cool is that! power teaching...I want to learn about it.
Great Teacher!
I won't speak for this video, but at my school, we adopted the CORE knowledge curriculum, which is more difficult than Utah's state standard. Just because Whole Brain Teaching appears weird does not mean these guys do not take their jobs seriously.
Ok I was a little skeptical at first but its bloody funny how the kids learn so much. I just need to be a bit more confident in how I present a lesson. Hey Biffle do you think you can reply back to me. LOL
I think it CAN be effective in certain classes and with certain populations depending on the students and the teacher, of course. I mean, picture your most boring high school lecture teacher-do you think they'd be able to employ this method with success? Doubtful. But, with students, especially students with behavioral problems, this could be a great tool. My only fear is that it would become highly exhausting, especially for self-contained classes. Its best for 1 period of math, I think
awesome.
Awesome job!
Fabulous!
Say AAAAHHH! That shit gave me a headache in the very first minute. Not to mention those poor kids without a neighbor being forced to talk to the back of their peers lol
You're such an ignorant !!
GOD BLESS YOU!
IT HAS ONLY SOME THINGS THAT TEACH YOU FOR YOR LIFE WHEN U GROW UP
I learned this in fifth. 😂
Yeah
Hmmmmm.....there is no camera in MY classroom. I have always tried to be positive, but this method has definitely increased my rapport with my students. Children learn more when they are having fun. It has to do with the amygdala and how things are stored in long term memory.
@nasbster915 - Also - think of this method in the context of Reading and Social Studies. Breaking lessons into mini-lessons, and then having children re-teach concepts is a research-based method of comprehension. I don't get the hate.
And if you were implying that they were behaving for the camera, let me just tell you, I videotaped my class before and they were aware of the camera and it made no difference in their behavior. They made a few faces at it when they first noticed and then carried on as usual.
I'm sure they do. I'm sure they all signed consent forms, as well.
I wish my middle school was like this :(
If "cheerleading" results in great learning, what's the problem?
If "cheerleading" results in straight "A"s, what's the problem?
and
If "cheerleading" is engaging, fun, and educational, what's the problem?
I thought it was 'creepy' too at first; but when I look closely, I see massive engagement, I see learning by teaching, I see positive peer interaction, I see an instructor teaching and students learning, I see success.
I just don't know how the students or instructors can maintain it.
i'd like to see this happen in reality!
agree
The most important thing this form of class management teaches the kids is to obey instantly and unquestioningly. It's really kind of scary.
I learned this in 4th grade and I'm in 6th grade we don't do any of this were working on spread and our class room is silent compared to this
my teacher does this but we are not rude like them and all of this talk at thesame time thought good vid too
@MondoBeno - I don't agree with this at all. I taught kindergarten in a school where 90% of the students were eligible for free lunch (so impoverished), 97% of the students were minority (I had no Caucasian children in my class at all) - in Texas, so many of the children don't have English as their primary language - and used many of these techniques successfully in my classroom. You teach them what you want them to do and they do it. You teach with energy and passion and they are invested.
I wish she was going to be my teacher.
amazing
cute! i'm going to try that with my students!
I learned order of operations in 3rd grade...
i learned please excuse my dear aunt sally in 3rd grade
Those 6th graders look like 4th graders damn...
6th graders in my school look so big nd mature
Oh yeah that's how you learn that maths.
I came looking for positive educational examples... What does anyone know about anything one minute after the teacher shut's up? Repeat after me - do not try to get why....
@MondoBeno - Also if her school were that posh, would she really have 30 kids in her class? Charter schools and private schools try to keep their class size between fifteen and twenty.