Miriam is Bob’s daughter, also a Latin teacher, and she shares her bio* with us: Salve! My name is Miriam Patrick and I am a Latin teacher in a public school in Georgia. I have been teaching using CI methods for three and a half years (I was hired mid term). I have my Bachelor’s […]
We’ve talked about how a follow up email to any observation is a good idea in this article from a few months ago: https://benslavic.com/blog/2013/02/03/the-best-defense-is-a-good-offense/ Just remember to cc yourself in, because the whole idea is to address any dings by the observor in the email and then when the person returns for a follow up
Last week Jennifer wrote a question about curriculum mapping. Here is a link to that thread: https://benslavic.com/blog/2013/03/17/curriculum-map-question/ Then I asked Diana Noonan about this. She was very kind to respond with the information below: “There is no short answer. Here is the definition of curriculum map from Wikipedia: “The curriculum mapping model as originally defined
Before helping the group address this question about writing from James, you may want to review what Robert has written about his Essential Sentences idea at: https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/11/16/essential-sentences/ https://benslavic.com/blog/2013/01/30/essential-sentences-2/ Ben, I figure this might be helpful to us during these dog days as we get into more reading and writing. I have been thinking about getting students
While we are celebrating Chris’ big win in Ohio, we have reason to celebrate more happy news from Ohio. Jeff Brickler has been refreshingly transparent and very honest with us this year in sharing what he has been experiencing, as he has taken a lot of hits, to put it mildly. So, enjoy reading this recent letter from
More from Chris: For my masters project, I gave my Spanish 1 class the Natl. Spanish Exam. I’m comparing my output, grammar based last year to my CI class this year. Last year I gave the test in MAY, this year I gave it last week, TWO months before the previous group. The class average
Lately we’ve had some stellar reports from some of the group. Here’s another one, and one we’ve been waiting for, about how Chris Roberts’ presentation went at Central States last weekend. I give this young teacher a 10 for courage and an overall 10 for walking into the lion’s den and basically kicking some major
The new corporate model when fully applied to education will change the culture of professional review. In the past, there was a more collegial approach, which had its flaws, but at least educators were evaluating educators. Now, the evaluation model takes the educator out of the observor, and so there are changes in the nature
I have been talking to Charlotte and the plane fares were twice as expensive from Germany as she expected so we have to help her. If anyone going to either San Diego or Dallas can help with any ideas about lodging – that is the main issue – pls. respond. I can’t imagine the expense for
Hi Ben, Guess what I did today? Yes! Absolutely right! I went to a department meeting where we took a stab at trying to come up with a curriculum map. Woo-hoo! Do you know if anyone out there has one that I can riff from? I am dragging my feet on this because I know
Jennifer commented here earlier today: …on Friday, a traditional teacher was defending two sections of a test she gave which required students to fill in the blanks for verb endings (unprovoked by me, by the way) and said, “It’s important to test those things because some kids need grammar rules….because that’s what they’re used to…” I
Grant asked Diana for a definition of CI and she copied me in on her response to him. We actually had this discussion about three weeks ago here but nobody thought of looking to the creator of the term for a definition. Here is what Krashen said CI is in “Foreign Language Education, The Easy
