Those following the thread where Greg recently had to impose Grammar Rule on one of his classes, which he did with a vengeance, will enjoy this update on that class: Hi Ben, I thought you would enjoy this scan. In my grammar souffleé class we are on the step where they have 1 full lecture […]
Miriam Patrick’s new novel came out today for all those in the PLC who teach Latin. Text: A girl just starting her journey, Eurydice finds herself thrust into a dark world from which she may never return. Can her true love face death itself and defy fate?
Anne’s book is now out on the Teacher’s Discovery website, but at this point only in electronic form. The hard copy is very close to appearing there, however. You can get the ebook from them or from me at benslavic.com. Only TD will sell the hard copy when it appears later this fall. WL teachers
This is a situation where I feel the group’s combined experience is needed to provide a good answer to Kara’s question: Hey Ben, I have 10 Middle School classes (divided into 3 preps; Beg, Int and Advanced) and trying to do OWI at this time feels too much. I would say that out of those
Today I received a private e-mail from John Piazza and reproduce it here. I think its timing, its subject matter and its implications for the future of this work are staggering. We must decide how we are going to respond. Inaction will result in, in its worst form, the end of our profession as we
Tina is back in her classroom in Portland today after a pretty intense but very rewarding experience in Atlanta with 146 teachers of the North Atlanta Cluster of the Atlanta Public Schools. We had been invited there by their WL Coordinator, Dr. Margaret McKenzie, for a two day training. The energy there is, has always
What is this new idea that might help us get rid of the feeling, born of the need of the few, usually white, kids to compete with and dominate the many? I call it, and it is almost a game, “Gimme an Object”. It is important to know that this is nothing new .We already do
So, as per the preceding three articles here over the past few day, the problem is how to get every child wanting to be involved in those few seconds after SSR ends and when the auditory input is about to begin. How to do that? If we practice the greetings, (this is kind of fake,
So basically what we said in the previous two articles in this series is, right after SSR in a very subtle yet disastrous process that effects the success of the entire class for the rest of the period, that the kids break into the haves and have nots. That’s what happens. And the thing is,
Have you ever noticed that in the short period after SSR ends and the class begins there is a subtle feeling coming from some of the kids that they really don’t want to be there, or only kinda want to be there? Of course, this is with the exception of the happy outgoing ones, but
This site has long been a test lab for various ideas in all areas of CI instruction, jGR being one of the more noticeable ones that has impacted no small amount of people. The Classroom Rules furnish another example, as the PLC has been involved in creating them, testing them, and then recommending whether they
I’ve been getting into Facebook lately but everything scrolls out so quickly and the group is so large there it’s kind of a blur. I see it as a shallow and wide thing over there and a narrow and deep thing here. Both groups, of course, strictly avoid any discussion resembling arguments about which pedagogy
