The kids in this video go to String Theory High School in Philadelphia. PLC member Laura Munich is the French teacher there and was at the workshop Tina and I did last year in Philadelphia. She has arranged for this summer’s Philadelphia institute to be held at String Theory (early Aug. 2018). Laura thanks for […]
Hi Ben. This Monday will be week 3 for me (I started in January) and as you suggested I’ve been using their book (traditional teaching) for half the period (about 23 min) and CI activities for the other 23 minutes left. This is with my high school French classes levels 1, 2 and 3. So far,
From Meg: Hi Ben, A question for the PLC. I’ve been working with my district’s social emotional learning coach and later in the month we’re supposed to co-teach a lesson on respect, why we want it, what it looks like. It would be in L1 and the class is in a circle and discusses. My
This is from Julia: Ben, First question after trying this for a week. I have kids saying they already know this stuff. But I have many kids who are getting it deep down for the first time since taking it since kindergarten. What do I do with the complainers? They don’t actually know it. They
Q. My French 3 student is quite a quick learner and a straight A student in all subjects. He’s quite brilliant. For small talk we can actually have a conversation about his day, what he will do…about anything really. Of course sometimes I need to help him with vocabulary but he’s quite advanced. He’s very
