Russ Albright in Oregon has some deep insights from COFLT (this past weekend) that might reveal why traditional teachers eye the CI camp with such mistrust. He doesn’t mince his words, which I really admire because this is no time for innuendo in this work we are doing together. It is something that fits well […]
Hi Ben! Thanks to your putting me in touch with Alisa Shapiro, I got to see her classroom in action recently and returned again for a TCI Chicagoland meeting this Saturday. There was an AWESOME demo of story listening by Sean Lawler that I can’t wait to try out tomorrow in class. I also have
Below is what Dana does with her blocks in New Delhi. I like that it is a process (graceful) and not a lesson plan (klutzville). Any single one of these activities can be expanded as long as they remain interesting. The SSR knocks out 15 min. right off the bat (we tell them it’s 10′ but
Big question from Ryann, one of the first, in Washington state, to have strong successes with the Invisibles at the high school level: Hi Ben and Tina, My ADD brain is struggling and I am feeling burnt out. I feel like there are too many options, too many possibilities, and I REALLY need some kind
Ben Lev in CA has just finished his new book on Carlos Santana. He shares: What an education it was for me about taking an idea all the way through the editing and publishing process. Like they say, don’t expect to make money as a writer. I’ll make a few thousand dollars for this, probably
Anne Matava said something to me in a conversation this morning that simplifies things nicely: ……essentially [in this work] a story is driven by a set of structures, a plot, or a character. There are teachers whose stories are driven by a set of structures. The scripts are plot-driven. The Invisibles are character-driven….
OK last ones i am posting now. 2 OWI vids from beginning of year. That is all I have. Will upload more as I go. My channel is unlisted bc I am not totally clear on waivers etc. even though there are no students in the vids. Will shift this maybe when I figure that
Alrighty. Here goes. Vid from last year, but whatev. Star of the day interview around this time last year. 2 others from this year coming. Upload takes 4 ever. Student being interviewed is someone who I’d never expected to be in front of the class (context FYI). I have them unlisted for now bc I
Jen Schongalla in this message to the group – sent to my email address at benslavic@yahoo.com so that it can appear as a post and not a comment – hits upon the very same thing I was thinking about this morning. Many of us are agreeing here that the mental health thing is not just
In an email today from Sean, he presented the best description of an aspect of concern about SL that I have yet seen. The following is some deep thinking and in my view gets to the core of the matter. I would add to what Sean wrote that Dr. Mason teaches students who are older
It’s almost like the issue of Classroom Management is at such a critical point that we can just start calling it CM, since we here in the PLC already have a long history of acronym-worshipping. Bryan sent this: Salut Ben, I was reading “The Smart Classroom Management Plan for High School Teachers” by Michael Linsin, and
I’ve ridden the three books below about as far as I can ride them. But any of our group members who still want to educate themselves on targeted TPRS instruction may want to read them. Accordingly, here they are as free downloads for PLC members only: TPRS in a Year spacer version_2_14_14 PQA in a
