Ben Slavic

Question

I got this question today: Hello Ben, After about five years, I am again seeking advice/help from TPRS & the CI community to help me teach language in the way I am convinced is the way to go if one’s concern is language acquisition. You graciously gave me of your time and advice five years […]

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Plan E

Today Meg brought up the topic of what to do when the kids don’t respond to Plans A through D. I wrote up a Plan E for addition to the Classroom Management book and share it here: Plan E – Removal If the misbehavior continues, if the side conversations continue, if we have called home

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Balance

How to get structure and still retain what one might call an “intuitive” curriculum? So let’s say we have a choice of our basic types of non-targeted strategies, for example Small Talk (Calendar/Weather), Card Talk, Word Chunk Team Game, etc. – the kind of things we do with beginners. The old thinking is that we

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Gretchen on Writing

I post something Gretchen wrote here today as a comment in case anyone missed it….especially the last sentence, which I consider huge in its implications for what is happening right now every day in our classrooms because of our new awareness around CI: …I see colleagues who, with good intentions, are having their 1st and

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Tattoo Idea

First they listen. Then they read. Then they write. Somewhere along that continuum, depending on the person, speech emerges. Input precedes output. WE cannot control that process, because it all happens where we can’t go, into their unconscious minds during sleep after large doses of listening and reading output the day before in our classrooms.

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Question

Gretchen has a question: I’ve also found my teaching to be totally transformed from this PLC and learning from Ben & Tina. I do have a question, although I’m not sure about the best place to ask it. I have a some what unusual situation in that I taught the first 6 weeks of the

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Florida

Does anyone know about teaching languages in Florida or know anyone? I’m asking for someone considering to relocate to the Tampa/St. Petersburg area. Email me at benslavic@yahoo.com if you have any information and thanks. I do know that Florida is as tough as it gets on teachers.

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Plan D

Tina and I learned a lot from each other this summer in our workshops, and classroom management was at the top of the things that we worked on. We have five or six “plans” now (levels of intervention). Here is Plan D, my favorite, because it is a true power move, perhaps the best I’ve

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