Ben Slavic

Tina and I are out to Georgia. See you in about five days!

I don’t use the L2 left side translations of the question words any more. I only put up the English. I can’t believe I didn’t do it sooner. The reason is glaring. When we do that, when we walk over and put our hand on the question word chart, they have to process the sound

This is just too good. Chicago – Greg and Alisa – is certainly in the house on this PLC! This is from Alisa: As compelling and intriguing as Conspiracy Corner is, I think the ACTFL situation is worse – it’s not that there’s a conscious effort to repress the ‘real’ way students acquire; rather it’s

This is a shared doc for PLC members only from our Greg Schwab. Don’t mention Greg’s name on any document you create from this. Just cut and paste it: https://docs.google.com/a/carmelhs.org/document/d/1rndkaAJmyl7UroUi36JIouQ-cWQFbaILUhHWX-4aRS8/edit?usp=sharing I really like what Greg said about the curriculum tar baby: “Honestly an administrator will probably skim the document and check off a box.” We

Please respond if you have something for Greg on this: Does anyone have a Curriculum Unit (UBD format) written about how you document the One Word Image and Invisibles process on a required document for admin? I know that Tina had that one Non-Targeted lesson plan, but that is more for lesson planning than “unit

Russ reports in from Oregon: Hey Ben, You said that we should send you our successes and failures. I should start by saying I have great kids. I’m really lucky for that. This year is going to be my best yet! But my 5th period is at the same time! disinterested, chatty, apathetic, and high energy

I am going to suggest to Tina that we possibly start a new FB site devoted ONLY to classroom management. There is no doubt in my own mind that the CI community has missed, at the summer conferences and all over the place, the area that most requires our attention. How can we use CI,

For those new to the group, Dana replaced me in my position in 2016 as the middle school French teacher at the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India and is now teaching the same kids who were the ones who actually started the Invisibles. She is one of few experts out there who have

SUPER LONG RANT FOR A SUNDAY: A teacher in Kazakhstan asked a question this morning that prompted this rant. Sorry about that. I think, however, that it is important to look at the history of what is happening in our field right now. Sorry about any typos – I have to watch the Broncos game

Here it is, what I think of an upgrade to the jGR rubric, for those familiar with it who have been reading here for a long time. Not to say jGR (can be searched in the search bar) doesn’t rock the house. It does. And some of the articles on it are compelling and defend

Far better than searching for something using the categories, for example bail out moves which is a current thread, is to use the search bar  just to the right. The categories aren’t as accurate and will return less posts.

I say with certainty after almost two years of writing and talking with Tina and writing a book with her on the topic that in CI we – Tina and I – need something less amorphous than TPRS. The Three Steps of TPRS nailed down a process – the Three Steps – that nailed down how