The Zoom training on Book 1 of the Ultimate CI series begins this coming Monday, for those interested. Go to benslavic.com and click on “training courses”. If you want to really access what is in these new books, the Zoom training is important. If money is a concern due to the pandemic hitting everybody hard,
In this third article in this series, Robert begins a series of responses to Sarah’s questions. Sarah had said: …the Department Chair has told us we are going to use Realidades. I used that book 5 years ago when I first started teaching and it hasn’t changed a bit. When I asked the sales rep
One of the most severe things we can do to ourselves as teachers is to collect so much information, so many different strategies and activities, that we can’t manage all of it. This is actually a form of self-harm. When we lack a simple formula in a simple and doable WL curriculum, when we end
A teacher wrote to me in an email this week: Q. Ben I am thinking of joining your PLC, but what would you say is the real goal of it so I can make my decision and see if I want to join? A. What a great question! If we all step back from the
Next Wednesday night (Dec. 19th) I am doing a webinar for Teacher’s Discovery on why reading is so important in a CI language program. All are welcome. It will be a 45-minute session on their website beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. I’ll put the link up when I get it from Teacher’s Discovery.
Robert starts out by presenting some questions he had read on the moretprs listserve: On the moretprs Yahoo group, one of the members made inquiry about dealing with a textbook adoption and questions for textbook company representatives. I replied with some questions of my own. Below are the original query (used by permission) and my
In many ways the new AP exam is better than the old one. There is no cloze exercise, and there are no discrete-item grammar questions. Grading is done holistically. However, scoring is still based primarily on output, and no matter what anyone says, a typical high school program will not get students to the level
For those doing the Star, I am beginning the Zoom trainings on how to use it over winter break. The information is on my website.
So thank you for renewing our courage today, Lord. Thank you for reminding us to just put our trust in you each day and get up and brush off the wounds of the previous day and get back to work. Trusting in you is the motto of our country, after all. Thanks for the reminder!
How I feel about language teaching is very simple, and has been expressed perfectly by the pianist Alice Sara Ott, when speaking about music: “Music is art, and art lives from creativity, and there cannot be any creativity if there is no motivation. And the motivation can only come from the child. So, I don’t
The rise of elitism in our society is paralleled in our schools. It would be unreasonable to think otherwise. When the few take over a class then that class becomes their property. One thing that I fear about our field in 2020 is how the rise of the few in our language classes will subsequently
