Greg shares: Hi all – Just wanted to let you know that I am presenting a CI session at Nice Minicon this Saturday! The other sessions are more focused on tech (but you always learn something useful)! If you end up coming find me and we can eat lunch together and turn it into a
We only accept the individually created drawings for consideration into the story if they are (1) big and bright and not stick figures (they must know how seriously we take our art culture first), (2) have mojo and personality, and (3) the back page has the following things listed on there and the information GELS to
Drawing Days It’s a good idea to let kids draw in class to prepare their ICIs. You need high quality drawings that badly. They are that important. During drawing time, students should be encouraged to look at the Gallery (a section of wall in the back of the room) of One Word Images and other
Individually Created Characters (ICI) have gotten the shaft because of all the hoopla around One Word Images (OWI). And yet the Invisibles were originally based on ICIs, not OWIs. What happened? It doesn’t matter. But I want to at least stand up for and promote this lovely way of starting a trip around the new
Long Post Warning Yesterday I received an email from a long-time reader extolling the virtues of the Star Sequence Curriculum: Ben, I have been on this PLC for a long time and have watched everything develop carefully. I am amazed at what has happened in my classroom with the Star. I’ve had a few sobering
Erikson’s Stage 5: Identity vs. Role Confusion “During adolescence, the transition from childhood to adulthood is most important. Children are becoming more independent, and begin to look at the future in terms of career, relationships, families, housing, etc. The individual wants to belong to a society and fit in. “The fifth stage is identity vs.
In the interest of time, in this analysis of Erikson’s thought we will focus only on Stage 4 (ages 5-12) and Stage 5 (age 12-18), the stages that most concern us as teachers. The reader is invited to research this more deeply here: https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html – which website is the source for the quoted text below
Erik Erikson was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on the psychological development of human beings. We would do well to include him in any discussion about curriculum because his work on the concept of personality development heavily influenced the new curriculum offered in these pages. Erikson maintains that personality develops in
Ray Bauer shares, for those still doing TPRS: At the last Chicagoland TCI meeting I talked about a tweak to TPRS stories that has worked well for me. I may present on this at one of our Chicagoland meetings, but I wanted to send it your way as well in case it can be of
A repost from 2010: I sent this to my principal last week: Today Luis came to class for the third straight day, which may be a record. [The social worker] and I are working on how we can help Luis save his year, because as we speak he is facing truancy charges. Luis is lost in all of
This letter is from Nathaniel Hardt. It is a brilliant response to the letter he received from a parent (in italics): Good morning, Mr. Hardt, My son Gordon is in your Spanish I class. Yesterday, he came home and informed us that he had a pop quiz in class and didn’t think he did well.
Relative to previous discussion on contacting parents when students’ grades are being affected by their absolute inability to exhibit observable non-verbal behavior as per the ISR rubric, here is the first of two sample letters, this one by Grant Boulanger: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Jones: I’d like to check in regarding Troy’s performance in Spanish
