One of the bread and butter moves we use in Read and Discuss is the choral reading part. I understand from Jody and others that choral reading is a big player in a reading class. I understand that when we merely read a text to a kid, it is a lot less effective than when […]
This post was written last May. It reveals my frustration with rude kids. I thought of going to a “Consequences Chart.” But Bob Patrick rightly talked me out of it, for those who remember that. But, now reading this again from last May, I can see how it prefigured jGR: The group decision to embrace the
My response comment to Ben Lev about jGR and quiet kids is something I want to post here as an article. Just about anything about jGR these days is important to put into the jGR category, since this bad boy keeps changing every day. By the way, my boss Diana Noonan who is the Coordinator of
Don’t forget that if anyone wants a comment made into an article for ease of reference via the categories just send me an email and I will make that happen. It is important for us to be able to access stuff here easily. The search function brings up too much information, so that the categories
The jobs piece does SO MUCH for developing a relaxed and honestly human energy in the classroom. It is a second unexpectedly exploding star next to the jGR Interpersonal Skills Assessment star that exploded here about five weeks ago and keeps expanding to everyone’s benefit. Two quick examples of how the jobs bring a certain
Some claim that this way of teaching requires more energy, but the worst kind of job to have is when the energy is blocked. So I would rather have energy flowing through me as it does when the CI is flowing than be doing some worksheet for the fifth time that day. Moreover, when the
Kate sends us her bio. She is part of that awesome group of leaders up in Maine: Hi Ben et al, My name is Kate Legere and I teach French to grades 3-12 at Islesboro Central School. Islesboro is a small, non-bridged island in Maine. I’ve been teaching 18 years in 4 different districts in
Hey Everyone! I am going to be teaching in Costa Rica this winter in a semester program for students in grades 10-12: www.Cirenas.org There are still some spots available, and scholarships, too! It is a really exciting program– set on a 5,000 acre ranch on the Pacific! Plus, the Spanish program is 100% CI! If
Here is a biography from Diane, a Mandarin Chinese teacher in Chicagoland: Hi Ben, I grew up in Ohio and majored in East Asian Studies in college (Wittenberg University, 1995) and had a few jobs and other studies after college. I lived in Yunnan Province, China from 2001-2004. While in China, I took one-on-one classes
Dori shared with Karen something we should all be aware of as a technique to use at parent conferences: I thought I’d share something that worked for me last year–maybe it will work for you, maybe not. But I thought I’d share. At parent-teacher conferences a rather weak student came with his parents who weren’t
We’ll see if this idea works – I am going to create a new category here for novels that are currently available. Kind of a book review section. We’ll arrange it by beginning (1 and 2) and intermediate (3 and 4) levels. If you want to suggest a novel that you think is worthy of
I just added a few sentences to what a 2 is. Feel free to use or reject. It’s in blue below: I’m really fired up about how jGR has changed my entire classroom energy this year. It is a strong classroom discipline tool – the strongest one possible because of its message to all kids about
