This is from our brilliant Laurie. MB found it – it was posted awhile back. If you want the other one that goes with it, just cut and paste from the title here and put it in the search bar. Transitions are tough for all human beings. Each one of us transitions differently. It’s no wonder […]
Rules and Expectations Part 2b: GPS and Compass Analogy for the classroom Read More »
Obviously when we do dictée we tell the kids the words for comma, period, question mark, quotes, etc., but I have started doing a cool thing that helps the kids become more aware of those pesky accent marks in French. If a sentence is: Sa mère crie… it often happens that the student “kind of knows” that
Smooth transitions are a key piece to successful classroom management. Most of us do not start out using TPRS in the classroom for an entire class period. Even when we get to that point on some days, we rarely do just one CI-based activity (ie PQA or storyasking) for an entire class period..especially if our
Rules and Expectations Part 2a : Getting Their Attention Read More »
This is a lengthy post that is intended simply to gather together in one place some of the ideas/comments on what Ben Lev started, and hasn’t stopped (see in red below), in drawing the attention of his principal to how the new CA standards might really be interpreted by teachers if they were to stop and think about
