February 9, 2014

Free Writes

One of our new members, Polly Fuller, has a question about Free Writes. I think it would help a lot of the newer teachers to be able to read some comments from experienced teachers on this excellent winter activity, when we just don’t feel like teaching and want our students to just be quiet for […]

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Just Go with the Flow

[ed. note: I will republish some articles from 2008 and 2009 on flow since they fit in with recent articles. They discuss a concept that is most important to our success in our CI classrooms – flow.] We ask questions. We do not know what the answers will be. One of the answers feels right

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Language and Family

I wanted to comment on what skip said this morning in a comment but I got that annoying security rule, so here it is as a post: Skip said: …I have been reminded a couple of times recently how common it is to try to use CI to TEACH the language – vocab, present tense,

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