Clip 9: Moment 3a

Michael:

There was a couple of other interesting issues that came out in that initial role play. And one was you suggested that you could tell him about different ways he could manage and help kids come up with the success criteria by themselves. And he sort of said, “Oh, yeah, okay, okay, okay.”

So what interested me about that is that you ploughed on, in effect. You said things to him, and you kept saying things to him, and he kept smiling and being pleasantly compliant as all nice people do. And you ploughed on. So that one of the things that.....or one of the things that goes wrong with that is you don't stop and check for real agreement. And yet you know that you wanted to stop and check. So what is interesting there is, how come you didn't?

So that I think there’s potential future learning that comes out of that is … how can you cue yourself earlier on to say, “Stop, let’s really check in how Jack’s feeling about this. Or whether I'm just tossing out suggestions at an ever increasing rate and speed that I hope that he's going to, that’ll hook him in at some stage.”