This builds the skills they need to follow directions. Tell the children that they are to do the movements that they hear you say and ignore the movements that you do. For example, say, "Clap your hands! The children should clap their hands. Give 3 or more directions at a time while doing 3 or more movements that do not match your words. If a child has difficulty following three-step directions, give two directions. If that is difficult, do one direction at a time. If three is easy, add more to directions.
If this game proves to be too difficult for the children then flip it around and have them do what they see and ignore what they hear and then try this game again after some practice. Explain to the children that they are to copy the movements that they see you do and ignore the directions that you say. Using the same example as the previous game but now the children are copying the movement. Have the children take turns being the leader.
And I did this for 18 years. And many teachers have done [and will do] this for 30 and 40 years. I become more aware each day of life that the authoritative weight of my 18 years remains in the shadow cast by many other educators. Some of this I did really well, and some I didn't. Some of the success and failure was my fault; much had little to do with things I could control. But the central truism about teaching that people rarely acknowledge is that education has almost exclusively been run by people who have taught none or very little.
Politicians and political appointees have been overwhelmingly without any experience or education in the field of teaching and learning. And the administrators who often run schools in ways that mirror my father's strategy for example, a principal who has a bathroom in his office telling teachers and students when they can and cannot use the restroom have risen to their positions with as little as years in the classroom and increasingly, superintendents are being hired with no experience as classroom teachers.
Paulo Freire makes a distinction between "authoritarian" "Do as I say, not as I do" and "Do as I say although I have never done it" and "authoritative" Let me guide you to becoming a writer because I am a writer". And this is where I now see why authority fails. To be specific, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan holds forth on education because he has been appointed to his position.
He and the many people in power who make claims about education are simply unqualified to make their claims, and spectacularly unqualified to make policy. Those with the status of authority also beat the accountability drum while being without any real accountability themselves. Maybe I am getting too cynical, slipping over that precipice at the edge of skepticism, but something terrible happens to humans once we grow through childhood and adolescence and into adulthood.
We stop saying "That's not fair. Most children who speak up and acknowledge that the emperor has no clothes are routinely ignored or punished [1] so we learn to ignore and even tolerate the hypocrisy of authority without credibility—obeying the King simply because of the status of being "king.
And I suspect it has been beaten out of us, our natural and healthy moral barometer that says that "Do as I say, not as I do" and "Do as I say although I have never done it" are cowardly, bullying, and simply wrong. Leadership, especially when being a parent or a teacher, must be authoritative, not authoritarian, if we are to reach the lofty goals we claim to embrace: human agency, social justice, peace.
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Don't have an account? Join Today. Do As I Say Fun game of mind-boggling series of movements. Energisers 2 - 5 min Small 8 Active. Save to Playlist. Step-by-Step Instructions Assemble your group into teams of approx 10 to 15 people, standing in a circle.
Challenge your group to repeat this process, working around the circle as quickly and as accurately as possible without making a mistake. When someone makes a mistake, you may choose to eliminate that person until one person the winner remains, or simply start over.
After several seconds have passed, the person to my left takes their turn. Recall Challenge : As an added getting-to-know-you bonus, make it a group goal to remember what each person liked to do. Anatomy Shuffle : Each person points to a particular part of their body but in doing so names it as another part of their body.
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