CLIP 3: Direct Appeals
[Annie Bauer - Professor of Early Childhood and Special Education]
She had passed out, I guess it was a prayer sheet, and there was an interactive Psalm, or something, that the students did. I think what was interesting about that was that, first, she didn't do it, that the students did it but just by saying "Classroom Officers," it fell into place. The officers took their position, stood up there, performed this, the rest of the class interacted with them and she clearly had set the stage and they did the dancing. And I think that that's a remarkable thing. Like Steve was talking about the seamlessness of the room. The routines are so established that it just flowed. The students knew exactly what they had to do. That's a pretty high expectation for 10 and 11 year olds to takeover a meditation, and they did.
[Steve Kroeger - Learning Disabilities and Behavior Disorders Specialist]
I love the way she prompted these children, in that kind of dialogue they had where she would ask a prompt with a question. One of the students would give a piece of information and then she would ask, "What piece of information do we need to fill that picture out?" that say Johnny or Sally had just done. The kids just kept responding and every piece of information that they gave, prompted more information. So it was just a delightful, cognitive strategy that she was using to kind of get more information out of them. She did this review of the material in a very natural way. It seemed like it was fun, because it felt like a discovery process, as I was watching.