Ben Slavic

Movie Talk Option

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 […]

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OWI Video from James

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

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jen

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

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Intruders

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,

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TPRS vs. Georgia 9

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

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TPRS vs. Georgia 8

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

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