Teaching demo: High expectations

Here is the demo that I'll do today to demonstrate having high expectations for students.

Teaching Demo: Teaching with High expecations
Content Focus: Requesting that a Behavior Stops
Grade level: 2nd-4th grade

1. Put objectives on board:
Content objectives: Learn how people in English ask others to stop a behavior
Language objectives: Become familiar with the vocabulary, stress and patterns of requesting that a behavior stop; Become comfortable creating own statements

2. Go over objectives.

3. Tell students that you have thought about their request to you to talk with the other students who are carrying out behaviors that they don’t like. You have decided that rather than talking for the students, you will help them with the language that they need to do this themselves.

4. Put the following stems on the board. Explain that these are very powerful ways to tell someone to stop. Ask students to think about what might go into those blanks. Put suggestions on the board. Model saying them to the students.
I don’t like it when
It me
I want it to stop.

5. Hand out Jazz Chant “I don’t like it”. Have students turn to Side A. Explain how it works with two ‘speakers’. Read it aloud to the students to model.

6. Have everyone turn to Side B. Explain that Side B shows the stress that it put on certain words. This will help them remember how the sentences sound.

7. Have the class say the jazz chant with you.

8. Put the class in partners. Have each partner take one of the roles of speakers in the jazz chant. Have them chant it with each other.

9. Now, give the students each 5 minutes to write silently at their desks about what it is that they want students to stop doing.

10. After students have done this, have them recreate the jazz chant with their partner so that these new requests are included.

11. At the end of class, partners read their new jazz chants to the class.

12. Homework: Think about the kinds of changes that the students would like to see in the school so that these behaviors don’t happen. Write down ideas. Bring them with you tomorrow. Tomorrow we will write a group letter to the principal with these ideas.


I don’t like it! (Side A)

I don’t like it
When you hit my arm
I don’t like it
When you hit my arm

But why?
It’s no big deal.

It hurts me
It hurts me
And I want it to stop.

I don’t like it
When you make fun of me
I don’t like it
When you make fun of me

But why?
It’s no big deal.

It hurts me
It hurts me
And I want it to stop.

I don’t like it
When you don’t give me a turn
I don’t like it
When you don’t give me a turn

But why?
It’s no big deal.

It hurts me
It hurts me
And I want it to stop.

Are you willing to stop?
It would mean so much to me.
Are you willing to stop?
It would mean so much to me.

Yes. That’s okay.
I won’t do it again.
I’ll stop. I’ll stop.
Let’s just be friends.

I don’t like it! (Side B)

I don’t like it
When you hit my arm
I don’t like it
When you hit my arm

But why?
It’s no big deal.

It hurts me
It hurts me
And I want it to stop.

I don’t like it
When you make fun of me
I don’t like it
When you make fun of me

But why?
It’s no big deal.

It hurts me
It hurts me
And I want it to stop.

I don’t like it
When you don’t give me a turn
I don’t like it
When you don’t give me a turn

But why?
It’s no big deal.

It hurts me
It hurts me
And I want it to stop.

Are you willing to stop?
It would mean so much to me.
Are you willing to stop?
It would mean so much to me.

Yes. That’s okay.
I won’t do it again.
I’ll stop. I’ll stop.
Let’s just be friends.