Ben Slavic

Carol just sent this link and offered this discussion: http://aftab.com/index.php?page=the-challenges A brief perusal found this and a story about a gay teacher in California who ultimately committed suicide after constant harassment by students. It is very real and extremely sad. I am afraid the answer to the problem is complex – it’s a heart thing […]

It’s glaucoma. That is the illness that the kids mocked in their teacher in my DPS colleague’s classroom. It has happened several times this year. Everything has to be magnified for him. There are things lying around on the floor that he can’t see. Lots of candy wrappers, books, you name it. Things on the

The discussion about ending our classes every day with self reflection/metacognition happened after Jason left, around 19-20 February. Annemarie has written about her own experience with it here: I’ve had a lot of trouble managing my 7th graders, and I have the idea of videotaping my 6th graders during PQA or a story and SHOWING it

I’m starting to see a possible yearly plan. The static idea of doing stories all the time and throwing in some novels at different points of the year is a bit too vague, in my opinion. A general yearly plan would reflect the academic and emotional needs of the kids as they emerge throughout the

The best way to practice PQA is to get a very simple text and read it to the kids. Circle out personalized questions from the book as things occur to you. It looks like a reading class, but you are really practicing your PQA for next year. If the book says: …Antoine Médina est responsable

Here are some links to information about Movie Talk : http://glesismore.com/movietalk/technique.html http://www.mjtprswordpress.com http://www.embeddedreading.com Thank you Jody and Laurie and Michele.

This article follows up the discussion found here: https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/03/21/read-the-novels-to-them-with-love/ So who gets Krashen more, Jody or Krashen? I vote for Jody. She knows everything he wrote, but has the added advantage of having lived it in the trenches for decades. That’s authority. When Jody says to Ben that movie reading has been tested and found

Bob wrote on the moretprs listerve:  …I don’t put a lot of time into it, but I always do it in Latin. I teach Latin teachers how to do these things in Latin, too, because they are the things that we all do every day, and they provide one of the easiest ways to do

A classroom system is how we organize the nuts and bolts of the actions that are NOT part of language acquisition. A classroom system organizes things like: *who goes to the bathroom, how often and for how long *how papers are distributed and collected *how grades are assigned and communicated *how the set up and

Carol Gaab will be presenting at SWCOLT April 12-14. The organizer is Jody Klopp, a name some of you will recognize. There will be several workshops/presentations there that TPRSer/CIers will benefit from! Brian Barabe and Laurie Clarcq will be doing two different presentations on Embedded Reading ( one 3 hour and one 1 hour). http://www.swcolt.org/conferences.htm

We can go a lot wider in PQA than we can in stories. If we learn that Patrick talks to chimps, then we can develop that and see where it goes. It may develop into a scene of extended PQA. There is so much freedom in PQA. However, if we are working to develop a

Carol sent this: Susan Gross and Laurie Clarcq will be presenting TPRS with levels 2-AP on Saturday, March 24 at Carol’s school in Pennsauken, NJ. For information e-mail Carol at  chill1019@gmail.com [ed. note: I have done this workshop and it answers tons of questions beyond the usual level 1 trainings.]