A Free-Range, Empowering Way to Get Kids to LISTEN in Class? Yep!

Hi Folks! I love this lesson, brought to us a while back by teacher Jennifer Tobin of Whitby, Ontario. I welcome any more tales from teachers or principals who have used Free-Range ideas or Let Grow’s free independence-building materials in the classroom…or outside it. Thanks! – L. Dear Lenore: I had wanted to do a Free-Range project with my students for a long time and I was inspired by my 8-year-old son. I am a teacher and I volunteer with Scouts Canada as a Beavers leader. My son recently moved up to Cubs but comes to my Beavers meeting to help out. We often have him run simple games with the Beavers (aged 5-7 ) as we finish up. He was complaining to me one night that sometimes the Beavers don’t listen, so we talked about some strategies to encourage people to listen and accept that sometimes people still won’t. The secret to creating a class of listeners LIGHTBULB MOMENT! Maybe one of the reasons kids aren’t great listeners is because they don’t have the opportunity to be the…