I got this email from jen today. It could have been anyone of us but it was jen. Due to it’s intensity, I’m limiting posts for four days for us to properly appreciate and react to what is going on as she takes – to say it mildly – some heat. We need a brain break […]
Chill reports: Hi, Ben: I always worry how my kids will fare when they leave the confines of my classroom and head off to college. I received this e-mail from a freshman at Virginia Tech. Granted Justin was motivated and went beyond the call of duty. With that said, he surely walked through the door
Dear Ben Hope you’re gearing up well for the new school year. I wanted to share this. I was teaching a student last week who I’ve been teaching privately in two hour 1:1 sessions on and off for about nine months – about the same time as my membership in the PLC. And I reflected on how much the
There are a number of articles dealing with classroom management here under the category of Classroom Discipline. However, there is a certain kind of kid who is in a category by himself and those I call pigs. I don’t know why I use that term. It doesn’t matter. There is therefore a Pigs category here,
Panel 9 of the Illustrations of Best Practices from Atlanta Public Schools – and please remember that this series of articles first appeared in this space in 2009. This is a reprise and it is highly possible that the Georgia tenets in slide show form are no longer in place or approved by the state
Let’s try Panel 8: Seek ways to include meaningful culture content in every lesson and every unit. It is not clear what language they mean for the Georgia teachers to use here, L1 or L2. If they are asking teachers to teach about the target culture in the target language to children, that ain’t gonna
