I randomly came upon this video the other day, and for someone who teaches both Kindergarten and 2nd grade, this video is like teacher voodoo. 

I mean seriously these kids look like professional actors in comparison to the daily dose of calamity that seems to rule over my class.




 I'm totally planning on trying to introduce the 'blow the answer in your hand' technique tomorrow.  The key word here is trying. 

Now I've been teaching in traditional and non-traditional ways for quite a few years now, but watching these "Whole Brain Teaching" videos made me feel super teacher-y, and also super inspired.  Both the class and the teacher appear to have a great understanding and love of learning, which who doesn't want for their class. 

I'd like to think that my class often looks like this; or, at least it looks like this when I bribe them with games.


But more often they look like this. 

Now I don't mind the bits of goofy silliness since they are only in Kindergarten, but I am hoping to hone a little bit more of my own teacher voodoo, and I hope you find a bit of your own as well.


 From Busan with Love,
Jenna