Dude I need to take a break and write a book. I know, I know. I said no more books and I meant it. But I have to. Close readers here over the past few months know exactly why. Something new is afoot. And the conferences are a coming. So I’m gonna do it. I […]
I’m in Zach Al Moreno’s classroom right now and just saw a cool idea. When one kid sings, Zach has him merely lip-sync it, while another kid actually sings it. Very effective. Zach’s class is just full full full of repeated questions. He is staying in the language. He is not using nearly as much
This report is from Annemarie in Maine: Ben, I’ve really been enjoying reading the blog this week. I have to admit that i really don’t create time for it when I’m teaching. But since I’m not teaching this week, I’ve been gobbling it up. I’ve been doing really well with my classes. I feel a
Kaela Crouch is at the very beginning of her career. We welcome her to the blog. I know that we don’t have time to really do bios like we used to – the time just doesn’t seem to be there – but it would be nice to get some from new members if we can
Jeanette has more experience than most of us. She shares her thoughts here on untargeted input. Jeanette has also authored an important, more general article in the collection of Primer articles on the hard link at the top of this page. Hi Ben, I just read most of the replies to Beth on Facebook.
I’ve noticed here in India that when I communicate with various American Embassy School personnel who don’t speak English, there is alway a joyful point of communication/human contact in teaching each other words from our own language. We have no other point of contact, in fact. So whenever I go down to the Tiger’s Den
Here’s a good article from Claire on this topic which is increasingly “in the news”.: http://1drv.ms/1Rwv55L
This is from John: Hi Ben, I just spoke with our principal in the hall, and I used that opportunity to reiterate the value of WL teachers in helping schools meet their goals of becoming less segregated. After I spoke with him, I sent him a quick email (below) reiterating what we spoke about. With
Some of this is taken from an old post called Feel the Burn. Some of it is new. It talks about about the importance of going slowly in our comprehension based classrooms. It addresses both the hostile silence we sometimes are met with, and also the brain dead kind of responses we see all too
Some kids – often the superstars – get annoying when they want to go on (they have a way of showing their impatience) but I have to go for the extra reps for the rest of the class. So I have a way to deal with that: I direct a lot of the questions at
This is from Alisa: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/02/22/closing-the-30-million-word-gap/
