Sick Power Teaching

I've been getting progressively more sick over the past couple days (hence no blog entries), and today I was a mess. Power Teaching--like most things--is definitely more difficult when you are tired or sick, but there is kind of a nice effect I've noticed. The call-and-response and silliness of Power Teaching not only energize the kids, but can energize you as well. Still, I'm sick as a dog, and can barely think. :-(

After just over a week of Power Teaching, I strongly feel that Teach-OK is the absolute most effective part of the program. I just watched few videos, and realized that I haven't implemented several things that I need to. First of all, I'm using "Woos" pretty infrequently, and I could easily use them much more often. Secondly, I have only used "It's Cool" for myself! This is good, since I make plenty of mistakes, but I totally forgot that this is supposed to be used MOSTLY for students, to create a safe learning environment for them. Woops!

Give me an "It's Cool." :-)