<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=199515.msg9757943#msg9757943">Quote from: SGTDan on 24-03-2014, 05:34:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh I know them well...just curious what you thought the eight were. I'm impressed though.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I have some little smidgeon of knowledge, but it comes from weird places and I take it into weirder places. Last week I addressed a class of language-teachers-in-training about the use of Forty-Second Boyd's OODA loop in tracking student behavior and responses and adjusting lesson plans accordingly.<br/><br/>It's a language class. If they take the topic away from your pre-planned thing but they're still using the language, you need to react and adapt to their interests and keep them interested, NOT shut them down by beating them over the head with the syllabus. The OODA (Observation - Orientation - Decision - Action) loop, despite its original intended purposes, works GREAT as a mental map for how to keep a bunch of learners interested and active. If you wanted to focus on verb conjugation and they want to talk about a news program in the new language which they all watched, just start using those verb conjugations IN that conversation. And if they ask for clarification, clarify then go back to what they were interested in. :)<br/><br/>In teaching, student interest is the terrain. And you damned well have to adjust your plans to that terrain and operate in it, or you won't get very far.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=199515.msg9757943#msg9757943">Quote from: SGTDan on 24-03-2014, 05:34:42</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Eh, luckily not the first time I've been disappointed. If anything it would make him more recluse and less social but if that's the way teh cookie crumbles.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'm not sure. One way to look at this adjustment would be 'He has to make connections and contacts to help support his people if/when he does awaken them.' versus 'He has limited time available for interest in others or involvement in their goings-on due to his obligations to his (active and giving him instructions) command structure.'<br/><br/>Might put a better spin on it?