Erica has a good MT selection and be sure to look at the selections in the comment field below it from chill and thank you both: A great idea are these new Mickey Toons they are showing on Disney. They really aren’t appropriate in my opinion for my daughter who is 3 but they are hilarious and […]
Chris from Ohio reports: We’re now a week and a half into the school year here and I have many students commenting to me that my class is their favorite, the highlight of their day and/or the only class they look forward to. It’s truly amazing and if it wasn’t for this method I know
Ben, I just got done posting this short video I made that describes one option for extending a OWI. Give it a look, if you like, and feel free to post to your blog. I know you have been wanting short videos describing methods, and I hope this fits the bill. Here’s the link: http://www.jameshosler.com/2013/08/extend-one-word-image-to-end-class.html
Here is a link to the parent letter that Mary Beth sends out. I don’t think she’d mind if any poaching occurred. That’s what we do here: Parent Letter – MB
Hi Ben: I had an interesting conversation yesterday with my new principal and my star student. The student has accomplished an amazing feat: starting from true zero in Spanish two years ago, he is probably Advanced Low on the ACTFL scale. The principal, intrigued by his fluency, talked to him about Spanish class. He said
We need to cool the activity here – it is too active anyway – and just sit with jen for the next few days. That may seem like kind of a dramatic statement but it’s not. She got side smacked yesterday. Only those who have had similar experiences can know what this kind of thing can do to one’s mental balance, especially at the
I got this email from jen today. It could have been anyone of us but it was jen. Due to it’s intensity, I’m limiting posts for four days for us to properly appreciate and react to what is going on as she takes – to say it mildly – some heat. We need a brain break
Chill reports: Hi, Ben: I always worry how my kids will fare when they leave the confines of my classroom and head off to college. I received this e-mail from a freshman at Virginia Tech. Granted Justin was motivated and went beyond the call of duty. With that said, he surely walked through the door
Dear Ben Hope you’re gearing up well for the new school year. I wanted to share this. I was teaching a student last week who I’ve been teaching privately in two hour 1:1 sessions on and off for about nine months – about the same time as my membership in the PLC. And I reflected on how much the
There are a number of articles dealing with classroom management here under the category of Classroom Discipline. However, there is a certain kind of kid who is in a category by himself and those I call pigs. I don’t know why I use that term. It doesn’t matter. There is therefore a Pigs category here,
Panel 9 of the Illustrations of Best Practices from Atlanta Public Schools – and please remember that this series of articles first appeared in this space in 2009. This is a reprise and it is highly possible that the Georgia tenets in slide show form are no longer in place or approved by the state
Let’s try Panel 8: Seek ways to include meaningful culture content in every lesson and every unit. It is not clear what language they mean for the Georgia teachers to use here, L1 or L2. If they are asking teachers to teach about the target culture in the target language to children, that ain’t gonna
