Here is a good question from Briana. Hopefully she gets some good responses: Ben, Thanks very much for pointing me toward Lori Fiechter. It turns out that our schools are part of the same network (the New Tech Network), and I was able to contact her directly. It’s always such a relief to know you’re […]
Whenever we get good detailed descriptions of teaching processes/templates we should share them. Here is one that Bob Patrick shared with the Latin Best Practices group recently: Of all the practices currently developing in the larger practice of Comprehensible Input, Reading and Discussing (R/D) in Latin was the thing that I began doing first–even before
Let’s take a break for real this time. We have almost 4,000 posts and 17, 000 comments here dating back six years, so plenty for people to read. I am really trying hard to get some video edited and up here over the holidays for people who want to study. It may or may not be
Jennifer describes below a scenario that took place with one of her students involving jGR. I publish it here and have placed this article under the jGR category, to add to the half dozen strong support articles there already, because of Robert’s clear description (below what Jennifer wrote) of the professional way in which Jennifer handled the situation with this
I think that since we have decided to take a break, it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to, if we feel like it, write, in the comment fields below: one thing that we feel we learned here last year that has REALLY changed our teaching. one thing that we intend to make work better
From Bob Patrick: Interesting (though not at all surprising) tidbit here today. I have a female student, Latin 2, who was “sent away” to a juvenile institution to deal with behavioral issues (at home – never a sing moment’s trouble in my class or at school for that matter). While away, for about 5 weeks,
Here is that information from Jim that he sent to jen about options available to those few kids in class who want something else. Jim, are we to understand that these are for levels 3 and above and that the kids must do this outside of class to pad their grade while they are responsible for all
Those following the Jeff Brickler thread here will be heartened to read this from some parents to Jeff: Dear Mr. Brickler, David is lucky to be your student and has been enjoying your teaching and studying Latin. He has learned a lot from you. We recommended you as an excellent teacher last year at Nagle.  And
In some classes, like the one Jeff is dealing with right now, you just have to give up the lofty goals of heavy input CI and punt the ball, just to make it to the end of the year with those tough classes. Anyone who is encountering serious pushback on stories, my advice is to
I want to keep the blog apolitical. Real life (the shootings) intruded, and we rightly needed to talk. I went numb, we all did, and something in me and in many of us will never be the same. However, I need to state clearly here that our purpose in this group is to keep our
Thomas Merton said what is below. It first appeared here in 2007. I think it’s a good time to republish it here in the light of some of us here having made the significant decision to this year work on our mental health in a conscious, specific way to our lessons and daily life in
Jeff is really a kind of lightning rod in our village. He has now been hit again. The image is one of a boxer taking another roundhouse to the head. No mistake about it – Jeff’s experiences these past few months are very emblematic of what many of us deal with, if perhaps to a
