learning that 1. there's a thing called the 'gen z stare' 2. it pisses people off and 3. it's just underpaid service workers staring at someone until they follow a simple instruction, has been interesting.
for example, the card reader says 'remove card' the customer goes 'it says remove card, what do i do?' then some underpaid 20 year old just stares at whatever twat just asked that question. apparently that's devastating for baby boomers and gen x'ers, and they're complaining about it. retail workers should be allowed to jump the counter and kill customers
So, in teaching, this is called "Wait time." You ask a question, or give an instruction, and then wait for the students to catch up and answer/follow directions. The trick is waiting longer than you think you need to, longer than feels natural. So what ends up happening is a lot of staring at your class, especially when you give a direction, and a kid immediately responds with "What are we supposed to do?" (In this case, you are usually waiting for them to read the board, or another student to call them out for not listening, or merely for the urge to sigh and roll your eyes to pass).
Wait time is a relatively new teaching strategy. I started teaching on 2013, and in my college classes wait time was still talked about as if it was the new great thing. What this means is that, about 20ish years ago, teachers started staring at children more. And now, apparently, they have been trained to stare back.
More power to them, I say!
^This belongs here cuz @evilphrog is right. I need to do this intentionally more often. π₯Ή
