Hi Ben, Could you post this opportunity for a Mandarin teacher? I need to find someone soon because I’ll be telling parents details of the trip in the near future. Thanks, Diane Neubauer February 25 – March 1, 2013, I’ll be taking my class of 13 8th grade students on a Mandarin-themed trip to San […]
So the Latinists sent some emails around to themselves a few weeks ago, including me in on the conversation, but the queue was jammed so I didn’t do anything as far as posting them here formally as articles, but the content is so rich that I thought I would just go ahead and post the whole
You’ll start to think I’m obsessed with our new jGR way of grading. That’s because I am. Here’s more: I am getting closer and closer to figuring this stuff out. What a long and fascinating journey. A Yellow Brick Road. A Long and Winding Road. That leads me home. What we have to do is
This is cool. Never thought of doing this. It’s from skip, Therese, and Michelle in Maine. For those who aren’t familiar with dictation, see the resources page of this site and click on workshop handouts. Standard F – HOW (Dictation Correction) 4 Exceeds Student self-corrects his/her dictation using the transcript of the dictation supplied by
I was sitting at the front of a workshop given by Blaine in Denver of 2004 . After the morning break, Blaine unveiled circling to us. For those who had been doing TPRS for awhile this was a revelation. We couldn’t believe this new riff in the method. Now, if someone told me that I could have circling
So what we are doing is testing an assessment instrument. That is most often done these days by gathering hard data. To test the validity of an assessment instrument, people usually isolate individual responses to a question after the test, count how many kids got it right, and then keep the question or toss it and replace it with
I just want to say how grateful I am for you all. We are a good group, there’s no denying it. I have just turned down visits to England, Seattle, and UC Boulder precisely bc the people I would be presenting to are not you. Most people in formal presentations want to take pieces of the
Dear Ben, More evidence we’re doing the right thing by the kids w/CI/TPRS instruction/assessment. This is so damning: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/education/stuyvesant-high-school-students-describe-rationale-for-cheating.html? Jody
Learning Style Inventories are probably easy to find on the internet, but I prefer the one I have been using for years, which is very simple. It has the advantage of being able to be completed in about 20 minutes by the students. One point about the LSI is that the discussion has to be in
I am going to be pushing the jobs deal, doing a lot of hiring, in October, as part of my plan to set things up for even higher levels of personalization in my classroom than ever. I do believe that the more the kid feels important and necessary to the group, the more they will participate
The Learning Styles Inventory is something that I just never got around to, but I am determined to get it published here and in use in my classroom in October. I think it is the perfect thing for October to cement my positive relationship with my kids. And, of course, I want to do the
I sense that there are phases to this work. I don’t think it inaccurate to say that August and September are really about what John is doing. We norm our rooms or we suck air in these first six weeks. That is a fact. We personalize as well. We start with stories only if we have already
