Susan Gross came to Japan a few years ago and we thought an infrastructure would develop around that visit. Now what is happening in Japan? Anyone in Japan reading this please respond by putting your information in a comment field below so we can make some kind of attempt at communication and training there. Pls. respond […]
Those here who have followed the Colorado Leap Evaluation thread in DPS over the past few years know that it is a complex teacher evaluation system – very complex – that pretty much determines if a teacher gets to keep their jobs. Failure is not an option. This initiative is in many states now. I
Hey Ben, I wonder if you would let me ask the PLC their opinions of the National Board Certification process? I am considering doing it and wonder if it is really worth all the effort, stress and hassle that it required. This is a link for the standards that are addressed. Here is the link
I have mentioned this before but just to repeat – we should never, ever, feel scared when doing CI and we always have dictée to bail to, at any time during any class on any day, along with the other bail out moves. This is especially true for new teachers who don’t have their sea
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A totally cool thing happened in class with names today. A new student from Congo has this name in Congo: Tag (given to him in Paris) Rolde (first first name) Gloire (second first name) Gabell (first last name) Deconoix (second last name). Well, did we have a time with that. In English. When we get
We must repair our voices. What does that mean? It means that we must speak from a place of joy in our classes. How, when there is such negativity everywhere? The method has joy within it. Words are connected to something much deeper than just the communication of ideas. This is supported by Krashen’s statement
In R and D we get facts from the kids after reading the text and we compare them to the facts about the chapter books – Robert’s term of chapter books is correct, by the way, they are not novels – and we keep the kids involved in the reading in that way. It’s the third
Last month I had a good ending to a class story with the cloze technique. I don’t know how many of us use that. I forget to do it a lot because there is often the quiz and the artist’s work to process at the end of class. However, I have found that when I retell the
Chris has been busy with all his different responsibilities and we need to send him lots of ideas now. We need to step up for him. Keep in mind that his audience (see below) will be full of skeptics drawn to the session because they want to keep their jobs and, as Chris says below,
Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor – http://teachersactup.com/ Carol Gaab – http://www.tprstorytelling.com/ Diana Noonan/DPS – http://curriculum.dpsk12.org/lang_literacy_cultural/world_lang/index.shtml Leigh Anne Munoz – http://munoz.chinohills.groupfusion.net/modules/blog/multi.phtml?profile_id=75981&sessionid=151ef0bfedfa4ad3bcaedbe4a8899183 James Hosler – jameshosler.blogspot.com John Piazza – www.johnpiazza.net/comprehensible_input Laurie Clarcq – http://www.heartsforteaching.com http://www.EmbeddedReading.com http://www.mwcsd.org/webpages/lclarcq/ Charlotte Dincher – www.NetzwerkTPRS.de (in German) Judy Dubois – http://funnylittleclassroom.blogspot.fr/ Martin Anders – http://tprs-for-germany.com/blog (in German) Mary Beth Tietgens – https://sites.google.com/a/biddefordtigers.org/spanish-1-2/ James Hosler –
If you have a website/blog, please send it in to me at benslavic@yahoo.com. We have the Group Members bio list and the Group Members email list (pls. update those as well if you haven’t yet) and now I think we should have a Group Members website/blog category as well. Thanks!
This is further information about Readers’ Theatre, provided by jen after a recent Carol Gaab workshop. I publish it pretty much verbatim here as an article so we can include it as another article on RT in the RT category. When we have enough articles on RT, we’ll organize it, put it up as a
