Interpersonal Communication Rubric 2
I'm moving this over from the list of comments. In this long rant, I respond to a question from Brian. I post it here because it has in it the closest thing I have yet seen, in my opinion, to a good set
Translating Readings Into English
This is a superb five star question from Lori: Ben, I know that this was brought up once before - about the perceived over-reliance in TPRS of translating stories into English. This came up in my class recently after we did a
Interpersonal Communication Rubric 1
Anne wrote: Hi, Brian. Do you have a rubric for the first standard (interpersonal communication)? I like Brian's reply because it talks about use of English, which is a huge topic that has never gotten enough attention. I also like it because, once
Day After Halloween
John shows why he is a PQA Commander. He is willing to "go there", where "there" is into trust that PQA can become something more (extended PQA or even a story). Here's his scary (for those of us easily frightened
Reading Thread
I'll just respond here to Jim's idea about finding a single internet place for embedded readings: Actually Jim, if the readings are from story scripts found in your book and in Matava's two books, then we should keep them in one
Brown Bear
Chill sent this: Interesting link: Literature for teaching children. After a brief perusal, I noticed that a CI person may have had some input with the Brown Bear, Brown Bear French story: http://www.education.ne.gov/forlg/
Readings
Jim sent this. It definitely warrants discussion: I've been thinking for a while how to allow ourselves to share stories with each other so that we don't have to necessarily write up everything from our stories all the time. I think
C'est l'Halloween" by Matt Maxwell
Chill sent this great link for French teachers, with the comment: This has become a cult classic among my students! I am sure most of you have seen it, but if you are like me - reminders are a good thing!
Brian on Standards Based Grading
This is some seriously thought out stuff - something we can all use in our buildings - from Brian and adds greatly to the standards based grading thread: Hi Ben, I've attached what is essentially my current thinking on grading as it
Water Wings
This blog post from last spring tags on to what we were talking about earlier this week: If we are floundering in the CI, we should compile a list of bail out moves and tape it to our desks. We can