Ben Slavic

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Does anyone have a good suggestion for Chris? Please post.   Hi Ben,In my Seminar in Research and Theory in FL Education graduate class my professor would like me to do a lecture and demonstration, or as I call it a ‘mini-workshop’, on TPRS.  I’m probably the only person within a 30 mile radius that

I wrote this here in 2008: I believe the prime responsibility of a teacher is to convey a sense of happiness, of lightness, to their students. In my opinion, a lot of Joe Neilson’s genius lies in this quality of fun that he naturally brings to his students. No kid wants to offer cute ideas

This is from Jim Tripp. He said that he would send a reading in a few days to go with it if anybody wants to use it. Candy Hearts stuck to Spell it! I don’t care Carl receives a Valentine from Miley Cyrus. There is a piece of candy stuck to the card. Bobbie asks

This is a very good option for your first story when you are ready. Skip Crosby suggested that I post this here. He said: …even for veterans this is helpful.  These structures are magical. They have legs of their own.  For level 1 they are golden. Both my rookie colleague and I used this with amazing

I was getting nervous about Dr. Krashen coming in last week and Diana told me to just not get too “creative” and simply teach using comprehensible input. It was great advice and I recommend it to you if you get observed. I am starting to see lists of CI activities. Fine, but don’t let them

Yesterday way was a true Friday, right? Restless adolescents in the middle of winter with too many teachers jawing at them about stuff they are truly too young to appreciate and whose  minds were not really on learning and mostly focused on being teenagers. I just want to share something from today. I don’t generally

I got this question today: Ben, Do you believe in 100-word free writes (or even ‘topic writes’, challenging them with a certain topic, perhaps what we PQA’d about) as a permanent, daily fixture in my 95 minute classes (which is all of them, all week)?  Just picking your brain here… And should they be timed?

I got a question from a group member today. The answer is very simple, but the emotional component is clouding the issue for this person. So comment freely, providing lots of love, to this: Ben,   I am going to check out Bryce Hedstrom’s alternate learning plan this weekend as I have three students from

I got this from Dirk about working with kids who struggle with the regular rules: Hey Ben – I have been cranking out this new re-shuffle of the weekly plan for CI.  I have had to accept the fact that at my school, which is essentially a behavior/spectrum disorder school, students are truly incapable of

As the new site gets ready to launch, I still need some testimonials with face pictures (more rectangular than up and down) if you want to do that. Just send them both to my email. Thanks for those who have already done that – very kind of you. I just haven’t gotten to the video

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.]