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Positive narration
Positive narration is saying out loud, without praising anybody, what people are already doing correctly, so that the room hears the instruction again from somebody who is following it.
Hone is a place to practise a career, one idea a day. This is one of its lessons, written out in full and free to read without an account.
What it is for
You have said settle down eleven times before ten o'clock and it works a little less each time. Narration is the same instruction said as a plain fact about somebody else, and it does not wear out the same way.
How to think about it
Describe, do not praise. Say what the room is meant to look like, in the present tense, two or three times, for about ten seconds, and then stop and teach.
Worked example
'Table 4 has started. Two more people are writing.'A description of what is happening, which repeats the instruction without repeating the instruction.
'I am looking for books open at page 40.'Says exactly what the room is meant to look like.
Not: 'well done everybody, lovely work'A judgement with no information in it. Nobody can act on it.
Stop after 10 s and start teachingNarration is a way into the lesson, not the lesson.
Your turn
Write the line that says what narration does instead of judging the work.
Narration describes what is happening; it does not .
Solve one, graded on the server
The trap
Narrating the one person who is not doing it. Naming them hands them the attention of the whole room, which is very often what the behaviour was for in the first place.