I am a teacher on vocal rest. What do I do to still teach when I am not aloud to talk?

Answer 1

1. play a movie
2. Write on the board, I can't talk because of a sore throat. Hand out cards that say " Stand in front of the room and talk about ------ for 3 minutes." Get the kids to talk.
3. Get someone else to run the class and do most of the talking. You just sit on the side and pay attention. Maybe a teacher's aide, or a great student.
4. Have the kids read outloud from the text book or a play or literature.

P.S.
5. type up a list of 30 questions about today's subject. Ask a student to stand in front of the room and read a question, then call on someone with their hand up to answer it. Go thru all 30 questions.

Answer 2

I got some of my best teaching done when i had laryngitis.
Every direction went on the board, students read every direction chorally out loud. I had a pair of drumsticks to bang together to get attention and used as pointers on the board.
Since i teach music, my classes already had an evolved set of hand and body language cues to use. The kids were mostly sympathetic and some even joked when i got well that i should have a relapse in order to gain greater performance out of class!

Answer 3

Have students do group work with lessons they can teach themselves.

And/or play a game with it. In 5th grade, we used to play a game where there were days with no talking at all. If you made it through the whole day without anyone in the class saying a single word, then the class got rewarded. I think we also competed with another 5th grade class. I think that I loved it as a student, and I think so did my classmates. In retrospect, that was quite a trick by our teacher to get us to do this. It must have been heaven for her.

Answer 4

Take them down to the computer lab (if you have one available) for a self-directed activity - Web Quest, pathway, whatever you want to call them.

Allowed. Not Aloud.

Answer 5

Become acutely good at gesturing.