Sometimes I publish comments as articles. I do so because I think that sometimes we miss comments that are important. So this comment-turned-article is from Mark Knowles, Director of the Anderson Language and Technology Center

This is a repost from 2013 that fits in with the thread started this morning by Wileen and John about teaching traditionally trained kids: Q. In your new book you mentioned the agony in trying

John concludes sharing his thoughts on how to work with upper level kids we get from traditional classrooms: All my best efforts I’ll save for the first year students, and let the word of mouth

John continues his response to Wileen’s question about inheriting non-CI trained upper level kids from other classrooms: I really think reading is the bridge between traditional inherited classes and CI. If they are looking at

Wileen asked this question in a comment earlier this morning: …I am teaching all third-year classes in the fall (well, in two weeks), and they are all coming from more traditional classroom environments. Do you

Q.  In Circling with Balls, what do you do if there are five kids in the same class who play basketball? A. This has happened to me. I just make each one of them the