The Secret Instruction is great for use in the classroom in any lesson, developing students’ cognitive flexibility and brain flexibility in a playful way. The teacher’s creative planning is required to design actions that fit the lesson content, subject, and classroom environment. This approach also encourages students to think flexibly.
An example for a class of 24 students:
| 1. | When the teacher claps three times and says ‘start’, take a white sheet of paper and, while standing, tear it into 4 pieces! |
| 2. | If someone stands up and tears a white sheet of paper, go to the black magnetic board and move the sun magnet to the white magnetic board! |
| 3. | If someone moves the sun magnet from the board, turn off the light! |
| 4. | If someone turns off the light, say loudly: ‘Wow, it’s so dark!’. |
| 5. | If someone says ‘Wow, it’s so dark!’, draw a sun on the digital board! |
| 6. | If someone draws a sun on the digital board, wait 2 minutes and then draw a cloud next to it! |
| 7. | If someone draws a cloud, say loudly: ‘Could it be a sheep cloud?! |
| 8. | If someone mentions a sheep cloud, start singing: ‘Where have you been, little lamb…!’ |
| 9. | If someone starts singing about the little lamb, take the recorder from the shelf by the door and hand it to the teacher! |
| 10. | If the teacher plays the recorder, take the thickest storybook from the shelf and sit on the small bench by the board! |
| 11. | If a student sits on the small bench by the board, sit next to them and say, ‘I’m here too!’ |
| 12. | If someone says, ‘I’m here too!’, sit down next to them and say loudly, ‘I am the third!’. |
| 13. | If someone says, ‘I am the third!’, stand up and say, ‘Three is the Hungarian truth!’ |
| 14. | If someone loudly says, ‘Three is the Hungarian truth!’, respond with: ‘No-no-no! And one is the extra!’ |
| 15. | If someone says, “No-no-no! And one is the extra!”, they should start loudly counting: “101, 102, 103.” (Do not continue counting!) |
| 16. | If someone says “103,” ask the teacher, “Is it math class now?” |
| 17. | If someone loudly asks the teacher, “Is it math class?”, then go to the board and write: “Class 4.c.” |
| 18. | If someone writes “Class 4.c” on the board, then take a chair next to the big trash bin! |
| 19. | If someone takes a chair next to the trash bin, then take the robot down from the top of the cupboard! |
| 20. | If someone takes the robot down from the top of the cupboard, then go there, ask for it, and put it on the green round table! |
| 21. | If someone puts the robot on the green round table, then loudly ask, ‘Did the sevens bring back the breakfast box?’. |
| 22. | If someone asks whether the sevens took the breakfast box, then stand up on your chair and raise your red pencil high! |
| 23. | When someone stands up on their chair and raises a red pencil, go to the window, open it, and say, ‘Is it raining?’. |
| 24. | If someone says, ‘Is it raining?’, then find an umbrella in the room and open it! |