About a month ago John brought up the subject of Socratic circles in CI classes. We were trying to figure out if seating arrangements similar to circles could help at all, although certainly not in the real Socratic way which can’t be done in our field. It was Sean whose comment on this topic let […]
I’m starting to see the story not in linear terms (first we create the story, then we read it, then we do all the ROA activities) but in spatial terms, where all the activities that we can do with a story, and there is a ton of them, can be tagged onto the story in
I know that the answer to Craig’s question below for the group can be found here, but I don’t know where, since I don’t target structures. Anyone have any ideas? This comes under the words lists/curriculum planning piece that seems to have come up (why are we surprised?) lately on many of our to do
I prefer using YouTube clips in an extremely simple way. In my view, too many words, too many events/details in a clip can confuse the kids. With this one below I would try for 200 reps of the verb to shampoo oneself. They would laugh while I snuck in reps. That is called teaching for
Alisa recently suggested that we put the hammer down (no half way efforts) on doing open sharing of our documents/scope and sequence here. The group will soon notice a new hard link above to that effect – Curriculum Docs. Use it. Alisa’s Chicago team’s docs will be the first up there. That will all happen
This request is from a long time group member who has gone through much persecution along the lines of Bracey, if you can believe that. OK not that bad, but it’s not been an easy road of it for him. He is asking for anonymity here: Ben, You may or may not recall that last
Here is a request from David Talone who was our very first Teacher of the Month so many years ago! I have simply not had time to write up those Teacher of the Month articles each month but if you search that term here you will find some familiar names of recipients. It would be nice
Jolyn has a question: I am volunteering, teaching EAL in a variety of situations in Mexico, some one on one, some small classes, over an extended winter vacation. Several of my students have access to internet and very motivated. I am using CI/TPRS methods in my teaching and tutoring, but I want to leave them
This request from Alisa to start gathering docs on a hard link above is super critical for everyone’s health and well being. Let’s do this: …whoever has nice looking school docs, charts, maps, rubrics and all that, let’s put ’em in a folder and keep them here as well as send ’em to the moreTPRS
It won’t change until the training/coaching model changes. We’re trying. But we can’t make CI based instruction work until we trust each other more in schools. It’s going in the opposite direction. We trust less and less in each other and less in what Krashen and Blaine have served up. It’s a big table of wonderful
The classrooms of yesterday were places where a studious and obedient group of submissive learners hung on every word of the teacher-narcissist. That is old thinking. It is not what a TPRS classroom is really about, certainly. If happiness is the goal (happiness naturally generates gains in all facets of life), then we need to allow
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