Ben Slavic

From Bob Patrick: Hey guys, It’s a sign that I am on spring break that I have time to Twitter, but I decided that each day I would put out little Tweets about C.  I follow and am followed by a lot of Latin teachers, and I want to try and put some seeds in […]

Here is a nice bio from Briana Livingston in Idaho:  I have been teaching Spanish in Idaho Falls, Idaho, for thirteen years. I spent the first ten years of my career teaching Spanish 1 and Spanish exploratory classes in a junior high. As I was finishing my third year of teaching, I was depressed by

Anyone new to this group – don’t be bewildered. Just click on the categories listed below and read there to start and you will stay sane. Those categories are the best and most important practical classroom ideas we have had this year, and they work really well in classrooms, in my opinion better than stories.

A great bio from Leah in the great state of Tennessee: Hi there, Ben! I hope you are well. Thank you for all your hard work on the blog! I’m only just starting to see how beneficial it can be. Here is my bio: I work at Springfield High School in Springfield, TN. It’s about

OK here’s Katherine Burke’s bio: I’m a freelance English teacher in Bangkok. I’m teaching part time. My background is as a freelance journalist and copywriter. I”m 41 and did the CELTA certificate in teaching English in 2011 in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. In January 2012 I was in Manzanillo in Mexico. I had an

Hey Everybody, Just wanted to give you another heads-up that today Ben’s iFLT workshop strand is now public. If you plan to attend iFLT and want to be one of the 30 in Ben’s workshop, sign up NOW. We opened it up to his blog people and to the people who were already registered for

Clarice is out there in Northern CA  kicking up the TCI all over place and they need 2.66 TCI Spanish teachers right away. Here is the information: TPRS Spanish Positions Open for the 2013-2014 School Year Oakmont High School, in the Sacramento area of Northern California, is searching for two full-time and one part-time Spanish

Warning – long post: I received an email from Blaine’s publisher, Contee Seely, in which he says: “I would like to hear or read your opinion about a significant question. Below you have this in the signature of your email: …it is very hard to create compelling messages when the hidden agenda is the relative

Now that we know exactly who is in the group, and who has and who has not sent in a bio, I don’t want to get behind that train again. So I am going to ask for a bio from every new member when they sign up. In order to make that happen, I will send new members the

The teacher of the month in March, if you remember, was Jeff Brickler. Click on this link if you didn’t get to read about what he has done this year, heroically, I might add: https://benslavic.com/blog/2013/02/21/teacher-of-the-month-march-2013/ April’s selection is working now as a substitute teacher. Her name is Angie Dodd and she quit her job in the middle

So the University of Georgia workshop was yesterday, and here is most excellent Bob’s report. Thank you Bob! Hi Ben, Yesterday was simply magnificent–at least from where I stood, and the 30 or so folks from the department seemed to be pleased, too.   Here’s a brief on what I did. I was betting that most

Here is Crystal’s website for the group: http://senoritabarragan.com/