Stir and Still

When I started teaching in SMP Al-Jannah, I was pretty surprised with the number of students who were kinesthetic learners.  Half of the class in each class can’t focus on the lesson without moving around. In my previous workplaces usually, there would be 1-2 kinesthetic students in each class. This made me think hard to plan my lesson every day. Until one day I remembered one of my mentors’ advices. She told me about how to handle smaller children with Stir & Still technique. Basically, you stir the class to move around in one activity and then you put the class to stay still in the next activity. Then, you keep repeating the technique until your class is finished. I believe this technique will work in my current classes too, even though I teach teenagers. This Stir & Still technique with the matching activities will benefit the kinesthetic students and also the teacher.