Hi Ben, This is my bio. Learning how to use CI and stories is changing my world. It probably saved me from burnout, or something worse. It certainly is making me a more humane, empathetic teacher and person and it is healing me. This is my 24th year teaching. I taught elementary school in the […]
Reading CI happens in my classroom absolutely like listening CI. The comments about reading below refer to both readings based on stories and the reading of novels. There is a process that we follow. It is so reassuring to have that process, so that we can relax about providing content all the time, which drives
I know that we had a lot of discussion/posts this past week, but skip and I are again focused on taking the weekends off with no new articles. If a new article appears, it will appear because it was time stamped. skip and I have agreed that for us the weekend starts at 3:00 p.m. on Friday
Yesterday a substutute teacher wanting a full time job as a language teacher strolled into my classroom at the beginning of one of my classes and asked to see a story. I obliged, and the class and I decided to be a little slack with the rules, since it was kind of a demo class.
This is from John Piazza: This posting has been prompted by an editorial I read in the NYT today about how a right-wing Christian group has effectively shut down an anti-bullying campaign because they think it is some sort of gay indoctrination. Mix It Up Day is an event that encourages students to have lunch
Bob Patrick sent this: Hi guys, I’ve found these two TED talks this week that so speak into what we are doing in CI classrooms. This is not about the CI work, technique or even school stuff. It’s about the soul work that we must be doing on ourselves and what real courage is. It
The commonly accepted approach to asking a story is to make sure that the kids have acquired all the structures in the story except the three new ones and to design the script in that way. People say that if the entire body of the story isn’t already familiar to the kids, the story won’t
Andrea wrote in a comment today: I am right there with you [Jennifer]. I feel really lost too. The feeling gives me so much anxiety – too much anxiety. I just want to know where I am going with this in my classes. I feel pretty good about it with my French I’s and OK
I rode into work today in perfect Indian Summer weather in this great state of Colorado. On the way back home, I saw a lot of kids walking home from school. What I saw seemed incongrous. Kids struggling to carry backpacks full of books, some in their arms, etc., having spent the entire day in restraining
Hey Jennifer here is the first part of the class I recorded yesterday, the PQA part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvbMM-zqeA I will add a voice over “director’s cut” later, along with the actual story, as time allows.
Michele has come up with an exit ticket/evaluation tool and has already sent it around in Alaska and we get to use it too if we want, so thank you Michele! Hi Ben, Here’s a form that I adapted from everything on the site to hand my kids. I have shared it with all sorts
There is a kind of reading routine or cycle. Whether we are in a typical story week or in a plowing week doesn’t matter, there is a loose sequence of events that I move through whenever we are doing reading: 10 min. of SSR translation of what we just read R and D dictée (optional)
