It just occurred to me that people may want to ask questions more formally and not just as a comment. Sorry that wasn’t clear before. The way to do that is simply send in your question to me at benslavic@yahoo.com and I will publish it as an article. Simple. Then it gets more attention and […]
I know it’s Saturday skip but just gotta say a few things. The beginning of the year is just so full of stuff happening. This post addresses seating charts again. In my traditional trained 3/4 class – 40 juniors and seniors – I allowed them to sit anywhere on the first day and by the third day
This article is aimed at those who crush children’s dreams, consciously or without being aware of it. I direct my comments at those who see bright and excited children enter their classooms in August and who, by October, have succeeded in turning those dreams back from ever becoming real. This article is not intended to
This was written in 2012 but since the topic came up here, I thought I’d share it again, for those still doing TPRS. The same basic principle applies to NTCI anyway: I am presenting in Las Vegas on this topic of transitioning from PQA into a story so I am republishing this article from 2007
Another question from a group member: Q. Is each “ring” doing just one movement, or are each of the three rings doing say up to three DIFFERENT motions at once? A. One person in one ring is doing one thing, like reading a book. Then you expand and get lots of questions, yes or no
Here’s another question from a group member: How early in the first level class do the stories begin? I am wondering how to begin ASKING stories with their limited vocabulary. My response is that it’s a great question. Depends on you. I do level one stories fairly early bc stories bring the best whack factor
Sorry about all the random posts but when group members have questions for the group that directly bears on a situation going on in their classrooms, I try to bump them to the front of the queue, which creates an overload on the postings here. However, it’s necessary bc many questions need immediate responses and it
I got this question from Chris Minkoff: Hi Ben, I’ve been following the blog and enjoying immensely. I’ve come across one item recently that has really gotten my attention, namely parallel novels. I see the last post being December of 2011, but I hope to start running my Spanish 3 students on parallel novels. I
Chris has a unique question. Here’s hoping someone has experience with this or at least some ideas: Hi Ben, I hope things are going well in Colorado. I just found out today that next 9 weeks I”m going to have a student (7th grade) who is blind and has to use braille to read. What
I think now is a good time to repost some articles from last spring on PQA. Just to get the creative juices flowing since most of us are doing heavy duty PQA right now, much more than we will be doing once the stories start. There are five of these articles and I will post one per
Latinist David Maust reports in from the West Coast. The jobs that David refers to are described on the “tprs resources” page of this website: I’ve done two days so far, and CWB is going well – although I’ve allowed myself to stop some right at first and talk in English about the rules, assign
A repost: Language is by nature chaotic. It is big and bad and random. Just about any word can follow the one in front of it, creating real or phantasmagorical images, and limitless possibilities of combinations of words. I remember when I didn’t respect that fact. I used to teach with a plan to tame
