The Big CI Book electronic copy goes up in early July from $49.95 to $89.95 A Natural Approach to the Year (ANATTY/Year One) electronic copy goes up rom $77 to $99.95. I have no control over these increases – I have to do what Teacher’s Discovery does by contract. However, there is a narrow window where you can still get them at the
I got a response from Jack and would like to share it here: I have to say I feel honoured to be talking to you again. Before I started my short but meaningful journey at AES, I considered myself quite shy and would never have been seen as somebody that stands out! You really brought
To finish our three-part series on Vampspooder the fat little spider, here is the book in which he is discussed – A Natural Approach to Stories. Look on page 74:
This is my response to Jack: Well Jack you inspired me as well. During my whole career I noticed how (mostly) boys with a sense of humor, super bright kids like you who had spirit, suffered in schools. For example, that science teacher who shamed you that day in early spring by sending you to
Today I got an email from one of my students in that sixth grade class in New Delhi whose energy helped lead to the Invisibles concept discussed here so frequently over recent years: Hello Mr. Slavic! It’s in my best hopes that you do remember me and this isn’t too much of a surprise, and
A Brilliant Step Forward Prior to Blaine Ray’s application in the form of TPRS in the 1990’s of Dr. Stephen Krashen’s groundbreaking research, foreign languages classes at all levels from the elementary to the university level were mostly taught from the textbook. But Krashen’s research has shown that people don’t acquire languages by focusing on
Our new book on CM is starting up its engines: The General Plan This book consists of three parts. In the first part we take an in-depth look at key points and strategies made in previous books I’ve written. The first part of the book, then, recapitulates, defines and illustrates the external strategies found in
Here is a possible title for this new book on classroom management: A Natural Approach to Management in the Comprehensible Input Classroom (NATMAN) Below is the beginning of the book. Each succeeding post labeled “Classroom Management” with a number attached to it will represent the next entry in the book. Of course, the final product
Everything published here scrolls out and eventually gets lost in the past, unless we are good with the search bar. In order to prevent the loss of these upcoming articles on classroom management, I’m going to write them up in the form of a book. We’ll build the book post by post – each new
Perhaps the best time to work on our classroom management skills is not during the year but in the summer. We must at some point when we are not in the middle of the fray take a step back to take a good look – if an uncomfortable one – at how we managed our
Last week in testimony before Congress the actress Taraji P. Henson said: “We in the African-American community don’t talk about mental health issues. We don’t even talk about it. We’ve been demonized for coming out saying that we have issues…and we have trust issues.” Is any part of what Taraji said applicable to what we
With the appearance of my last two books this summer on the Invisibles, the external search to find – for me – the best way to teach a language will now mark the beginning of something new that I wish to address in our professional community. What is it? What is this “something new”? It
