If you haven't yet, make sure to check out the new Power Teaching website! It has a very clean design, and compiles all the online Power Teaching resources into one place. It also has some new features, like a forum. Get on that thing if you're not already, it's great. OK, so I kind of like the new website. I'll give it a rest now.
One strategy in Power Teaching that I'm having trouble with is Please-OK. I've got my kids doing it pretty well, but when I taught the "neener neener neener" part, NO one remembers to do it (even my snottiest little GATE kid; just kidding, I love him). They generally remember OK, but it's just not that... snappy I guess, which is what you really want from it. Also, I haven't even bothered with guff, as talking back is just not a problem with my third graders (I guess I should thank my lucky stars for that one).
Here is a cool gesture I figured out today:
This is a method for differentiating between titles that are underlined and titles with quotations marks.
For underlines, we make a nice long underline with flat hands moving out, reminding us that LONG things (books, movies, albums, collections of poems, etc) are underlined.
For quotation marks, we make quotation marks with the fingers of both hands, and scrunch our arms and shoulders together a little as we curl our fingers, reminding us that quotation marks are for SHORT things (poems, short stories, songs, etc).
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