Follow the leader

Recently I taught a lesson to my class about communication skills. We talk about different ways to communicate. After a short lecture about non verbal communication, which my students thought was totally impossible. The only way they can see communicating non verbally was of course you know, texting. Well after the lecture we played a game called "follow the leader." It is a game where the groups stays in the classroom and one person who is called the guesser, is called outside of the room. While the guesser is outside the door, the group picks a leader. The objective is for the group to follow the leader, and to keep the guesser from figuring out who the leader is. So the leader has to communicate with the group non verbally without getting caught by the guesser. Every time the leader makes a move the rest of the group has to follow suit. The students were so excited about the game, my principle came in the class and the students explained to him the object of the game. They told him that they were communicating non verbally. He was so impressed he mentioned it in a faculty meeting, and stated that it was differentiating. He called it "follow the leader", cosmetology style...Who knew!!;-)