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
This is from Mademoiselle: Hi Ben! I have a really good google slide presentation about crepes because today is national crepe day in France. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bnGm5oWDgU9_sAlujFkfv1ah0gbi6KzBMGty7uHudCI/edit?usp=sharing But where can I share things like this in the future? [ed. note: to me at benslavic @ yahoo dot com.] It is based of of
Hi Ben, Q. I started OWI with my classes and we did Write and Discuss with two of the reading options, questions from the back of the room and I’m moving to story. In the book A Natural Approach to Stories I see the 7 questioning levels. Do you suggest I follow all of them,
Our PLC member Sarah Downey was the GA WL Teacher of the Month in November. Here is an interview they did with her. If you listen to it, start 30 seconds in: What makes world language education in Ga so great? Our teachers and students of course! We caught up with one of Ga.’s World
Steven has a question for the group: Hi Ben, I have a quick question for the PLC. Are teachers who teach with NTCI, using less and less written translation on the board? I find that many of my students are tracking me really well, so I just say the translation to them when it’s a
Mila, who is working to master the Invisibles process (and quickly getting there) asks: Q. So, they already drew the OWI character. They decided the details of the character: ex., gigantic red sheep named Geppetto who is dumb, very rich, very sad, who is crying a lot because he has all the money in the
So I asked Robyn to send pics of her cart. We kind of decided in that discussion a few days ago started by Jonathan in VA that NT is the best option for people on the cart simply bc it requires so little schlepping of prepared plans, materials, etc. So here are the pics from
Question 2 Jonathan explains: My colleague (also a member of this CI PLC) has been given the, shall we say, “beautiful challenge” of teaching a French 3/4/5 class comprised of 35 students total in a room that only has 26 desks. Oh, yes, and by the way, he’s the other one on the cart. My
We have some really good questions from Jonathan in Virginia. I put my responses below, and we can use the comment fields. I would love to see if group members have thoughts on the cart question, in particular. It’s a question that has never come up here, to my recollection. Ben- I’ve recently joined the
Greg’s presentation below on the Invisibles is clear and concise, and highly recommended for people who can’t quite grasp the concept, or who have the Invisibles mixed up with one word images (OWI), etc. I highly recommend to the reader here to watch this video and thanks for sharing it with us Greg! Hi everyone,
