Ben Slavic

Response to Chris

That thread on when to write prompted Chris (Roberts/Ohio) to ask a few questions but the annoying security rule thing blocked my answers so I am posting my response to him here so just ignore it. And Chris by the way I wanted to add that I do believe in writing in the first two

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The Miracle

I think of working for money as necessary but not a very exciting pursuit, necessary to keep things moving around on the planet, but certainly not worth all the attention we give to it. Choosing a career in money, seeking to work just to make money, would be to choose a career that ultimately isn’t

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Beginning the Year

We had a thread here recently about talking to the kids about why we teach this way. I remember saying that I personally prefer to avoid lengthy discussions about the theory of CI. Rather, this from Melissa today is a great example of something we should tell them. I’ll put it in the Beginning the

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Erin’s Norms

The background on this article is that over the past few days in the comment fields we have been looking around for the right response to Jason’s question about managing jerks. I thought that Erin’s comment today pretty much summed up in a few lines what classroom management really should be in a comprehension based

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