Intellectually Disabled. Really?
When teachers exclude students from the classroom process because of the way they teach the language (verb conjugations, memorization of lists of words, etc.), what they are really doing is saying that those students are intellectually disabled as language learners.
Pringle Man – 1
Here is the first in a series of 10' videos taken from a 7th grade class who last year in 6th grade had a grammar based curriculum. It's about "Pringles Man" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8PiA0J814
Very Lengthy Classroom Management Discussion
I got this from a group member: Hi Ben, I felt the need to be accountable to this. Today is one of those tired days where I just want to let myself take it easy. All our juniors are out of the
PQA vs. vPQA. Jazz vs. Bach.
Has anyone noticed how the comment fields just stop and you can't make any more comments? I wanted to respond to something James said about how he is going to explore vPQA but there was no room so I am
A Way to Teach Prepositions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjiKKaLfgU
Teaching Prepositions
One way to teach prepositions (sorry, this might only work for French) is with a song sung to the tune of London Bridge: sur sous dans (devant, derriere 3X) sur sous dans (devant, derriere 3X) a cote de
Review
Here is a review of my two latest books. I am very happy: Review of The Ultimate CI Book 1 and Book 2 by Ben Slavic During my recent long-awaited professional development for teaching using Comprehensible Input, I realized that one of
Overview of the StarChart™ Curriculum – Use it with Administrators
Here is an overview of the StarChart™ by our group members Jesse and Elahe. Jesse calls it “a summary of his experience and understanding of our Zoom CI classes.” It’s a great description of the Star and I suggest that
“Let’s go camping!”
Normally, I focus only on content here, but I would like to register something else here in this post today. I am feeling, for the first time in 20 years of slogging through the TPRS/CI wars, real and authentic hope.
CI with Stories is Difficult Online
The difference between doing tableaux vs. stories using the StarChart™ is that stories involve creating a problem and a solution and they also involve people talking, which doesn't happen in tableaux vivants. This means that in stories there is action