As you begin your adventure into Whole Brain Teaching keep in mind that you want to start slow with just the basics. We like to look at this experiance with your challenging students as a quest...one that will take you to teacher heaven. Give me an Ahhhhh!
Now as we embark on this journey we want to move up a series of levels, some you may never get to, it just depends on your class. I will mention the levels here and then I will reference them in our ebook, "Teaching Challenging Students...and the rest of your class too!"
Level 1
Rules - they are crucial to the operation of any classroom. See section 13.
Level 2
Please, Okay game - See section 24.
Level 3
Guff Counter- section 19.
Level 4
Independents - Section 18
Level 5
Bull's Eye Game - Section 31
You may travel through these levels at a pace different from others...
You may have a group get out of Level 4 and then reenter that same level two weeks later. It all depends on your class.
Try it out...we're all here to help!