The Kid Whisperer: How teachers can be simultaneously weird, uncool and effective Dear Kid Whisperer, I’m reading your book and having a hard time with how this works for seventh-graders. If I use Strategic Noticing as many times as you suggest, 34 times in one of my 50-minute periods, I think it will actually annoy the kids and they’ll turn it into a joke. Do you have any thoughts on seventh-graders? Answer: No. Not really. Let me explain. As teachers, we want kids to do ...

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