Language of EB

From Teach

Class Management Tips

• Instruction for them to look at their homework while they are waiting for the rest to arrive.

To off-task individuals

• To Jakub: "Come on quickly. You're very late."
• "Paige, Freddy, why are you so late?"
  • "We just finished break."
  • "Well, come on."
• To Seb: "Could you please stop what you are doing and listen to me?"
• "John, come on, heading, copy!"
• "John, you haven't copied anything. If you don't copy, I'm going to growl at you."
• "Come on guys, quick, quick, quick."
• "Even if you haven't finished, put your pens and pencils down."
• "Put your pen down please, Paige."
• "Get it copied down. Two minutes. John, pen."
• "If you can't copy it down in time, you'll have to stay behind at the end."

Teaching whole class

• "Who can give me a definition of perimeter?"
• "Can you be more specific?"
• "I'm looking for a particular word..."
  • "Distance."
  • "Brilliant!"
• "Can you give me an example of a perimeter?"
  • She gives an example.
• "Can I have a definition of area, please?"
• "Yesterday you worked out the area of a rectangle. What is the rule for calculating its area?"
  • "Come on, it's the same people answering. I'm getting bored."
• "OK, good"
• She writes on the whiteboard.
• "I'm going to give you a little recipe. It doesn't matter whether it's the area of a ..."
• She works through an example.
• "In your book, you can put a heading -- To find the area of a shape -- and then copy down the recipe below."
• While they copy, she takes the register.
• "Quickly! When you've done it, put your pens down."
• "It may seem very easy, but we're getting into a really good habit."
• "I don't want to see lengths x widths in triangles."
• She walks around while repeating her main points.
• She stops for a detailed look at Paige's work.
• The triangle stuff is on the EWB.
• "Use every other line, because it makes it much easier to read."
• "If you've finished, think about the area of a parallelogram."
• While saying this, she hands out a worksheet.
• "What does a parallelogram look like?"
  • "It's a dodgy rectangle that someone has given apush."
• "If it were a dodgy square, what would we call it?"
  • "A rhombus"
• "What do you mean by ...? Can you show me?"
  • She invites an individual student up to the board to point out.
• "When you've got it all copied down, can you all have a look at the sheet. It's a mixture of parallelograms and triangles."
• "What shape is it?"
• "What rule do I use?"
• "Goes over the shape and rule for six of the questions."
• "Good girl."
• "You've got to write the correct rule down. If you don't write the correct rule, you'll get the wrong answer."
• "I'm going to go round the room and ask people for rules."
• She wanders round while they work, commenting on their work. She holds up an example by Ruby which is "really beautiful".
• "OK, I want you to finish off the question you're on, and then I want you to get out your diaries."
• "If I show you a mixed sheet next lesson of rectangles, parallelograms and triangles, how confident will you be? Show me the R-Y-G from your diaries."
• "Those of you showing me yellow, can you tell me what the difficulty is?"
• "Hand me your sheet as you go."