Ben Slavic

Quiz Writer

For those using a quiz writer, Ben Lev came up with a nice little set of instructions for that student. Here they are for those interested: Querido/a Quiz Writer, ¡Gracias por escribir el examen pequeño! • 1. Please write 10 statements in Spanish about the facts of the story. • 2. Use the new vocabulary […]

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Pacing Guides

If anybody is in a fight in their building over pacing guides, it may help to print this out: The differences in philosophy between Comprehensible Input Instruction (CI) and traditional language education are: • CI is a student-driven methodology. It responds to the linguistic needs of the students at any given time. This makes it

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Question

We should answer this as a group in the comment fields below. It concerns us all: Hi Ben – It’s that time of the year when administrators are beginning to ask teachers to turn in Measures of Student Success that demonstrate student growth. Pueblo City School (District 60) implements the RANDA system in which teachers

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Question

Taron has a question for the group: “If you had to list the top five skills/ characteristics that a NTCI teacher should exhibit in their classroom, how would you do that (Maybe SLOW, calm, command of the target language … etc)?”

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