This is a repost from some years ago. I feel like I’m swimming upstream on this point in the group. Oh well – I’ll keep repeating it. Until we jettison all the L1 explanations in class, which are about ego and showing off more than they are of any actual value to the students, we will […]
We should use calming music when we start our classes with silent reading. How does the it work? Our normal heart rate is around 72 beats per minute, and is much faster in kids who have eaten sugar and drunk those caffeine and sugar laced monster drinks just to get themselves going in school. The music
This is about a teacher in Mead, WA regarding her attending my upcoming July 11-13 workshop in Spokane with the Kalispel Tribe. So sorry to use the PLC for this, but I just can’t find that email to respond. Permission has been granted by the tribe. Contact me for details. Again, mes apologies but I didn’t
There seems to be some confusion about my new book, TPRS – The Easy Way. I haven’t invented a new version of TPRS. Rather, I have happened upon a serendipitous combination of things. I tried to explain it to Diana Noonan a few nights ago and it took over two hours. I could tell that she wanted to
Alisa send this with the warning to have Pepto Bismol on hand. I couldn’t make it past one minute. It was either click out or feel the nausea: Alisa shares: Take a look at this +-3-minute chunk of gobbledy-gook. It’s in “cute” cartoon video w/narration form. PU. World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages | American
Nathaniel wrote in a comment this morning: …Paul from Denver put out a challenge a few months ago. I cannot get away from it…. I went back and found Paul’s challenge, which was posted as a comment here back on February 15th: Cher Ben, We know what we know to be true. And we know
OK all you Matava script fans….Story Scripts Volume 3 is finally here. Give me four days or so to get it listed in the benslavic.com pages as an ebook and Anne is making it available in hard back form as well. Anne says there are more home run stories in this volume than in the two
We have talked about mini stories, which is Blaine’s original term for those really short stories that we use to warm kids up early in the year for longer stories. I have been thinking lately how important they are, and how, although we have a small collection of them here (https://benslavic.com/blog/super-mini-stories-2/) I still would like
I was reading through some old notes and found this quote from Susan Gross in 2007. I realize now yet once again how lucky I was in 2001 to have found her as my mentor: “As I listen to teachers, I hear that something is missing. In our attempt to spell things out and to
Alisa sent this and thank you Alisa: http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2016/06/our-reform-proposal.html
Let’s start it up again in the fall or even next month. We can announce a Teacher of the Year in June like we just did with jen. We just have to remember together. It’s not like we don’t have deserving people, right? My gosh, what a bunch of warriors there are here! The emotional
Jen for so many years now you have been such a great champion of the kids – it comes as no surprise to me that you just received the comments below from kids at opposite ends of the spectrum. I know we don’t do a Teacher of the Month thing like we used to (I
