Q. What do you do with dictées? Do you mark them? I’m looking at their translations right now and how carefully they copy them. Would you ever use them as summarize marks? A. I put them into the book as a quiz type of grade. I use a ten point system, and I would award […]
Q. Just a quick question. What’s the difference between the archivist and the curator? I thought that I had it clear but now that I’m coming closes to bringing in the jobs, I’m not sure. A. The archivist is kind of a relay person each day, sending the Video Retell (Step #7 in the questioning
A report from Dana who is working with the very same 8th grade students who as 6th graders two years ago are the very students who invented the Invsibles concept: Hi Ben, I just have to share with you. Even though we lost a lot of your original Invisibles students, this group is lots of
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Someone on FB asked this truly important question: I need help! I have a VERY challenging group of Spanish 1 at the worst time of day. They are energetic but compulsively talk chatter and joke with eachother. They came with a reputation. Anyways their card talk is not interesting any more. Does it have to
How to reconcile the obvious disconnect between Krashen’s idea that learning a language should be an effortless process while at the same time being rigorous? It depends on how we interpret the word “rigorous”. Robert Harrell has said that our language classes should be rigorous, but not onerous. This involves, among other qualities, “sustained focus”.
Hey Ben, I’m really liking the beginning of the school year the way you shared with us this summer. Since my students are all so keen, I feel like they’re ready for more stuff. We’re finishing almost the third week of school and we’ve created 3 characters that are quite developed, and we’ve done card
The passwords they give us are unwieldy. If you want to change it, just click on the tutorials hard link at the top of this page and follow the instructions.
After a long summer of traveling around, Tina and I got a wonderful statement of support from long time PLC member Laura Avila in Maine. I treasure it: ¡MIL GRACIAS! Tina and Ben. The work you are doing with NT instruction is — for me — the way to go. Last year I read Ben’s
We have a question from Nick about what the bathroom policy is in our classes and how we model and maintain it with our students. In the past I have struggled with setting a consistent policy on this.
Teacher’s Discovery has recognized the value that Anne Matava’s story scripts hold for CI teachers. Their plan is to distribute all of Anne’s scripts, old and new, in one massive script book to be released soon. Testimonials are needed by Teacher’s Discovery for the back cover, so if anyone has a few lines to offer
