A repost from 2011: When we stir pancake batter, the lumps go away and the batter is smooth. That is what we want to do with our repetitive questions when we circle. Just keep making circles with the wisk in the bowl until the lumps are all gone. If we don’t make enough circles, we can […]
I posted this in early May and had to push it back until now because the queue was too jammed. It’s starting to get a little unjammed now. I had just visited a classroom where the teacher laid a bunch of incomprehensible input on the kids as they walked in. It shocked them and me.
I was doing a seventy minute story last week as a final exam. We did the story over a period of about fifty minutes and then the kids were to take the remainder of the period to write out the story. I flipped the board to show the artist’s drawing of the story for ease
Reuben Vyn will be teaching French 1 at iFLT. Watch this guy. He is our best in DPS. He never uses English in the classroom. His exit scores are off the chart. There is an IB program at GW, which has at times been ranked as the #1 IB program in the U.S., because, like
This is a reposting of an article I wrote here in 2009: I had an insight after talking to parents for eight hours over two days during parent conferences. In talking to the parents I took away a feeling that they first and foremost want their kids to experience a feeling of success in my
The amazing Robert Harrell is this month’s Teacher of the Month on the PLC. He is our resident scholar here. The complete fisherman, Robert casts his intellectual net far into the ocean for all of us on the PLC and consistently brings in big delicious fish and cooks them himself so that we are never
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San Diego Just a few notes from the iFLT website: Housing You can make a room reservation via the TPRS-iFLT conference website at: http://tinyurl.com/TPRS-iFLT If you have not yet booked your hotel, Carol recommends doing so NOW. Holiday Inn discounted rates expire June 9. Conference Schedule The current conference schedule – not finalized – is
Here is an initiative from our own Laurie. If you are going to Dallas please read: http://www.ntprs.org/ntprs.org/JUST_ONE_BOOK.html
Skip requested that we start an upper level thread to be categorized as such for the fall. We will also try to get some stuff on it in San Diego also. Below is the start, taken from a comment earlier today . This approach to upper level CI is a simple idea where we take short
A repost from January, with new blue chip ideas added in: In welcoming Lori to the group this past week, chill said that there is gold in these posts. I am happy and agree. But I am becoming concerned that so many posts and comments here over the years have created a problem of too
We can stop with the freaky focus on the stories. It’s over. It’s not about the story. It’s about the reps on a limited number of structures. It would be about unlimited reps on unlimited structures – that’s how it was designed – but we don’t have the kids 24/7 and I firmly believe that
Greg wrote this yesterday: …are we still in agreement that a strong choral response is key? I think strong responses from everyone will be one of my few main objectives in starting the year next time I’m teaching French. I had a little mental break-through during my French 1 class yesterday. It’s 32 kids and
