Recently we had picture day. Personally I always dread it because they have this crabby old ladies who don't know what they are doing and enjoy making you wait as you get your picture taken and for special education students. this is pure torture and cruel punishment on earth for both the students and the teacher. I have tried bribing, threatening and scolding but it has never been effective waiting for pictures.
For this year I decided to use teach, okay and switch with giving the directions with short simple phrases that we often use with autistic students and then have them repeat the directions and teach each other. I also added switch to the lesson and they had to teach the lesson to each other. For the part of the lesson where they had to smile for the picture I made a goofy face. They absolutely were shocked a teacher would make a funny face and happlily taught each other the lesson. The directions were sit, wait a LONG time using the ASL sign for long and funny voices for long, smile, sit and wait ASL sign for wait. It worked like a charm and for the first time in 24 years I was not stressed out during picture time. In fact I liked both of my own shots and it took me quite a long time to pick my own picture. We used a similar scenero for a tornado drill. It worked great and my students were the best behaved in the hall. No bribery or scolding needed.
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