Ben Slavic

Jobs – 3

In the next few articles I feature a few of the most important of the fifty-two jobs listed at benslavic.com. The first is on the PQA Counters: PQA Structure Counters (3) – Kids love to count stuff. The three PQA counters (or however many targets you have that day, there may be less) tally repetitions […]

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Making It Work

Here is a repost from 2012. It applies again to how we can begin the 2014-2015 school year as well: It is the main purpose of this site to help teachers find ways to make comprehensible input work for us in our classrooms. Of course, what works for one doesn’t always work for another, and

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War Room Group – St. Louis

Here is the beginning of a War Room group in St. Louis: Melisa Alexander malexander@bethalto.org Derek O’Chui chiudy@gmail.com Heather Manibusan heather.manibusan@estl189.com Daniel Madrigal danmadrigal@gmail.com (plus one more from East Saint Louis High School) Heather Sandy hsandy@wacohi.net Polly Fuller pfuller@wacohi.net Bliss Muniz bmuniz@wacohi.net Troy Walcott twalcott@wacohi.net Nate Sidwell nsidwell@wacohi.net

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Jobs – 2

Jobs must emerge organically. You can’t just assign a job. It has to be chosen by the kid. The better jobs have to be earned. The superstars who occupy the best jobs enjoy a kind of “second teacher” status in the classroom, which is huge for the teacher. Superstars are constantly pulled down by so

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Educreations Question

On Wednesday nite last week in the Chicago War Room session Jenny (China) suggested some sites that are similar to Educreations. These are sites that I thought that we might explore as a group to then share the results of our research with each other – how they stack up against Educreations – so we

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