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    Putting Wow1

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    Socrates and Ron Clark were able to capture and keep their audiences through their wisdom and unique teaching styles. Great historical figures like Shakespeare communicated their messages effectively to motivate and inspire others. This document discusses putting a "Wow! Factor" into teaching by connecting with students at a deeper level through performance and heartfelt dialogue. It suggests various ways to get and keep students' attention, from dramatic teaching styles to using props, technology or background details to make lessons more engaging and memorable. The goal is to build a "Wow!" into lesson plans to make learning more alive and successful.

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    Socrates and Ron Clark were able to capture and keep their audiences through their wisdom and unique teaching styles. Great historical figures like Shakespeare communicated their messages effectively to motivate and inspire others. This document discusses putting a "Wow! Factor" into teaching by connecting with students at a deeper level through performance and heartfelt dialogue. It suggests various ways to get and keep students' attention, from dramatic teaching styles to using props, technology or background details to make lessons more engaging and memorable. The goal is to build a "Wow!" into lesson plans to make learning more alive and successful.

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    Socrates and Ron Clark were able to capture and keep their audiences through their wisdom and unique teaching styles. Great historical figures like Shakespeare communicated their messages effectively to motivate and inspire others. This document discusses putting a "Wow! Factor" into teaching by connecting with students at a deeper level through performance and heartfelt dialogue. It suggests various ways to get and keep students' attention, from dramatic teaching styles to using props, technology or background details to make lessons more engaging and memorable. The goal is to build a "Wow!" into lesson plans to make learning more alive and successful.

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    Putting Wow!

    in Your Classroom: Teaching as Performance Art

    Many of the great teachers – from Socrates to the Ron Clark’s of recent years – have known how to
    capture and keep an audience. They have either led with their wisdom or . . . with gimmicks that have
    worked. While students sat at Socrates’ feet for hours of dialogue, Ron Clark has (and probably still is)
    jumping up onto desks. There is nothing mediocre, nothing blasé, nothing forgettable, about either of
    these individuals or approaches.

    And, in fact, many of the giants in history from Shakespeare to Plato, Genghis Khan, Gandi, and Martin
    Luther King certainly captured the attention of those around them. They were committed to getting
    their message across.

    The Wow! Factor is about communicating, which starts with getting and keeping an audience. It
    involves more than the right message and relies on the art and science of knowing how and when to
    communicate. Not just to deliver a one-way message. But to dialogue. To dialogue, to motivate, to
    stimulate, to innovate, and to truly listen. To connect somehow at a deeper level. With Wow! it isn’t
    only the mind that is activated. Wow! activates the heart and some of the most effective conversations
    teachers have with students are ones that are shared at a heart level. My teaching becomes more
    important because I believe in connecting with my students -- Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes so
    they know I am with them, for them, of them. I am them and they are me. My students become my
    teachers.

    So to be effective, speak from your heart, not just your head. And make sure your audience knows you
    believe it is critical to connect.

    To connect, there are myriad of ways to get and keep attention. One could clown around, dance a
    dance, do magic tricks, dress in the costume of the era, teach with a flair for the dramatic, or do
    acrobatics. One could play music, sing, create art, whisper, or shout from the rooftops. It is the 7 year
    old opera singer that creates a wow! So doing something incredibly well can create a wow!

    Sometimes the content itself is so big that the content drives the wow! It didn’t take many screenshots
    of the gulf oil spill this year to get our attention. Sometimes it is the aside that makes the wow! -- pairing
    an interesting, but little known fact, with the event works. It wasn’t just someone giving money to New
    Jersey schools, it was the inventor of Google. Stories and background tidbits may be the factors that
    deliver the punch and help us remember. When, in the midst of so much knowledge and information,
    why would anything at school be important? What we took for granted as important 10-20-30 years
    ago, cannot be assumed to be of the same importance today.

    . . . Or it could be technology that delivers the wow! The IPAD. So slim, so trim, so dynamic, so virtual.

    It could be the background props, the lighting, the acoustics, the violin playing softly at a distance. It
    could be we are entertained. It could be that the wow! becomes a gift. That our lesson plans are just a
    bit more real, more alive; that they are more successful, because we take the time to build in the wow!

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