This from James is very important: Ben, I finally had time to sit down and write out my approach to standards-based grading. I have written the first two parts so far, with one more to follow in time. There should be enough, though, to make my point. Part 1 describes the standards themselves: http://jameshosler.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-foreign-language-standards-friendly.html Part […]
Activer topics now are: SBG ELA/ELL Class Competitions Videos So I think we can’t have all three of those going at the same time – too much. I would like to go full blast on SBG right now and table the other two for at least a few days. Four SBG articles, all by James but
I just heard on web radio that every day 7,000 students drop out of high school. If their desks were stacked up, it would be to a height of 16,000 feet, higher than all of our big peaks out here in Colorado. The stack of desks would be higher than twelve Empire State Buildings. We
This is good and I agree with Sabrina’s support of the idea that we need to bring in more video clips like the texting one she sent us a few weeks ago, especially at this time of year. Bonsoir tout le monde: Je vous fais parvenir une petite pub en français (courte, 40 secondes) au
For those interested, in San Diego at iFLT (July 9 – 12), I will be doing the morning sessions with real high school students from the San Diego area, but I have asked Carol for the chance to work with any of this group in the afternoons on everything we’ve been talking about all year. I just
Here is an article on public education: http://www.alternet.org/education/why-you-can-kiss-public-education-and-middle-class-goodbye
Shannon recommends these short clips for Movie Talk: Blue Umbrella. Café Parapluie.
When doing Reading Option A, which is the reading sequence I suggest for readings based on stories (vs. novels, where R and D works best), we often tend to get locked into the story on the screen in front of us. But we need to learn to follow the energy where it goes. Last week in
Hello hello, I hope you find yourself well :). I wanted to share with you a couple of things and ask for your opinions / the opinions of the PLC. 1.) So, great news! I’m winning my own battles for CI-based instruction in my school, which is very exciting. (I teach in a small school
Having been a victim of my own need for approval from others for my entire career, I strenuously suggest that we avoid using national scores on any kind of exam to evaluate our work in the classroom. Such exams are nothing but competitions, and competition has no place in language acquisition. For one thing, the
Last year we didn’t get jGR operational in our classrooms until later on in the fall. Next year, I plan to spend the first part of the first class explaining to the kids how they’ll be graded – short quizzes – 2 to 4 per week, and jGR – every day. From the opening minutes of
John sends us a student comment template with pre-fab options to be cut and pasted into the student comment. James take note as we may want to add this into our templates hard link: Ben, I was hoping that the members of the PLC could take a look at a comment template I’ve created. A
