Do you feel that you spend the majority of lesson time doing anything and everything but teaching? Impact Techniques in the Classroom brings you 88 powerful tools and activities to make your teaching more effective by developing your students’ emotional intelligence, enhancing memory skills, and increasing cooperation and engagement. Danie Beaulieu uses easily available props, such as chairs, crumpled paper, extension cords, and sponges as metaphors in these effective exercises. For example, to give a student a feeling of self-confidence, place a chair at the side of the room. Ask the students to imagine that this chair is reserved for someone who likes them very much, believes in them, and accepts them unconditionally. By permanently placing a support chair in your classroom, you are setting aside a real space for a presence that will reassure each of your students— a presence that will make even the most anxious students feel safe, instill confidence in those who feel less secure, and create a calm environment, especially during test periods. The activities use techniques that incorporate current knowledge about how the brain and memory function. By using verbal language, images, movements, and props, these techniques target the student’s implicit memory— the form of memory that decodes information through intuition and experience and is outside the students’ conscious control. Activities address classroom management and student behavior and can be used in a group or with an individual student. Grades K-12 |