Linda and I were talking about whether we should join a program in our school where we open our doors to groups of teachers from all disciplines to share ideas about teaching. My position and Linda agrees that we are so different in what we are doing, in what we are trying to accomplish, that […]
A repost from 2012: I’m doing this story by Jim Tripp this week. It originally appeared here last June but here it is at a more appropriate time of year. As I was underlining the variables, I noticed what a work of art this story is in its simplicity. Anyone who wants to craft a script is invited
Just venting here. I was looking at a benchmark that my school uses to describe the Interpersonal Skill in our SBGR system. It reads: … I can communicate on very familiar topics using a variety of words and phrases that I have practiced and memorized…. Dude. That’s not interpersonal communication. Gag me.
OK we are doing Lance’s second video (02) right now. I know there is the time availability factor here. Maybe we should do only one per week. So let’s schedule it this way: discuss/give feedback to Lance on 02 by Saturday and then crank up a discussion on 03 on Sunday and on into next week. Here’s
I just got this celebration report from Angela Pidgeon who has been with our community for a very long time although somewhat quiet. This is the kind of report from the field that I most value on this PLC, and there is a lot to value here. Angela’s success is what our group is all about.
I did this activity today and I gotta say this is a mega winner for the kids. I know that it is hard to explain but if you see it in action you will see how simple it is, and you won’t believe the involvement. This falls under the category of “The Are Not Learning
Lets’ extend the window for watching and commenting on Lance’s second video (see first post on this thread for the link) until Sat. nite. I sense we are all so busy right now, so it seems like a good idea. We will start discussing his video 03 on Sunday. So I expect to see lots
I don’t like to plan a class in advance. It seems fake. I wouldn’t order a meal for Friday night on Monday morning, either. How would I know what I wanted to eat so early? When we plan in advance, the message is, “OK, I have this cool stuff to do involving such and such activities,
I have a question for the group. When you create a story without a script, what do you do? I want to hear the different responses. For me, I just: 1. Get any sentence like John was running, about some kid. It gives me a person to personalize and an action to create a problem
Lance has sent over TWENTY videos for us to watch. As with Alisa’s video and any and all video we can get to talking about here (there are many on the hard link above) this is a learning opportunity. It could be the equivalent experience of terms of learning gains about CI to an entire summer conference,
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jGR is a big part of many of our classroom management plans. Here we get an update from Diane Neubauer on how DPS’ Annick Chen, one of the four who helped develop it, has done some tinkering with it in her Chinese and French classes: Hi Ben, I got to meet with Diana & Annick
Hey Ben – Here’s my 1st attempt at sharing my classroom T/CI practice via video demo. I want to both up my game and contribute/give back to the professionals from whom I’ve learned so much. Notes: These are beginner 1st graders who’ve had 3×30 or 90 minutes/week Spanish instruction since October. We got off to
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