Guys, I’m just needing to share. It’s Wednesday of my first week back. 195 students. (I know, I already told you that). I am exhausted at the end of the school day. I treat that by a trip to the gym and then red wine when I get home (one of them has to work). […]
Our new group member Guy is faced with the impossible task described below. We have discussed it here before. Pls. contribute what you want – he can get little pieces of answers from everybody. If you know where we can find some of the good answers from before, pls. send us the links. Guy I would
As we begin the year, many of us by using PQA and by just talking to the kids in order to set the rules and personalize our classrooms, let’s not forget the power of early reading to give a little extra clarity to our instruction. How can reading do this? How can reading be a
Captain Bob Patrick’s unit went into ground action today, earlier than most of us. He was kind enough to report back after the day, which sounded great after his first day on duty, with no major skirmishes: Home after my first day at work, glass of wine, dinner finished, feet up. Wow. Oh wow. What
Traders Point Christian Academy in Whitestown, IN. has an opening for a full time Spanish teacher. The position is for middle school grades 4th-8th and one section of high school ESL. The instruction is based on the TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Story telling) method and uses the TPRS materials from TPRS Publishing, Inc.
Skip is mentoring a new teacher and gave her this. I think it is a good thing to put here, to remind us how we can keep things simple this year. We need to address a lot this week, like the posters (I still have to get Bob Patrick’s wall photos up here), but I
It wasn’t under a hot dog. Ardythe had it. Thanks Ardythe for finding it. Note that this is not a unit plan, as we’ve been discussing, but a weekly plan. This plan adheres to standards and is actually real and also very simple and user friendly. I just send in the same one each week because I
I will add more bios as we go along. The posters are updated on that page of this site and we can talk about that. I thought it would be a big deal but since they are all up there each of us can just reference what we want. Anyway, here’s our own Anny: I’m
Got this from skip on the lesson plan thing: Hey Ben, I remember during the second part of the school year you wrote a lot about lesson plans. You provided a template. I can only find this: https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/03/03/when-being-observed-3/ but I can’t find what you wrote…. I REALLY liked it and thought it might help with
I had asked Michele to address grouping kids in this lesson plan thing we are discussing now. Here is her response to add to Laurie’s and thank you both so much for your wisdom – it will really help this new teacher: Dear Ben, I got an error when I went to submit this comment.
For those new to the group, whenver we get a comment that is really valuable, we turn it into an article so that it can be found more easily via the search process and since then we can file it under a category, in this case under Lesson Plans. Here is an email on the topic
I have taught at UPrep, Redding, CA for seven years (French) and five years (Russian). I have always taught with TPRS/CI, originally using the LICT series and sticking fairly closely to the stories, but gradually over the years realizing that PQA could take up more and more time and that just talking with students, using
