Ben Slavic

Bullying of Teachers 2

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 […]

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Metacognition

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

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Easy PQA

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

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Movie Talk

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.

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Peace Is My Goal

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

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SWCOLT April 12-14

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

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