Love and Logic

Here it is, two days after I got home from convention, and I'm still ruminating on one of the best workshops I've ever attended. It was a session based on Teaching with Love and Logic, as applied to the choir classroom. It's exactly what I need right now.

I will keep the handout from that workshop in the front of my folder this year. That way I'll have those ideas at my fingertips.

The most revolutionary concept shared with us was what to do when a kid is arguing with the teacher. They told us to go brain dead. Don't reason. Don't think. Just come back with a one-liner that will either diffuse the situation or make the student think about what he/she is saying. It's a practiced response thing, and not a power struggle.

I want to get that book. I want to read it cover to cover before school starts. (That may or may not happen.) I want to go to more training on this. Most definitely.

The song in my head is leftover from the wedding yesterday. "Dodi Li." It's an easy enough song that I think I'll have my 6th graders sing it this year at some point.