Chris, in a blog comment to https://benslavic.com/blog/2011/09/12/model-what-you-want-from-them/, questioned the value of bellringer activities, suggesting that kids seem to be annoyed by them and looking for possible options. Robert Harrell responded (made into a blog post here for ease of reference: Chris, I have tried to do bell work. A few years ago I had something […]
I am doing a site redesign and want to highlight some of the better blog posts here. If you have a blog entry that has been really useful to you, please send its link to me by private email at benslavic@yahoo.com. I appreciate it. Ben
I got this question and don’t know the answer. Anyone? – Is there any way I can have the blog RSS feed to my Google Reader?
Two of my students came up to me today to show a comic strip they made in Spanish on their own because they’ve been testing for the last 3 days and they missed my class! It made my day. I showed a colleague and he immediately pointed out a grammatical error-yo me gusta, instead of
Hi, my name is Sabrina Janczak. This is my 3rd year teaching high school French in the Greater Chicago area. I have also taught at the college level. Teaching is a second career for me. I am forever grateful to my methods teacher who had us read Krashen’s Natural Approach and introduced us to TPR and
Brian you and Brigitte both mentioned how you actually discuss how you use comprehensible input methods with others. I have done that too, a lot, and I wish I hadn’t. You can assume that nine of ten teachers with whom you speak about the exciting things you are doing in your classroom simply don’t want
Should the artist be instructed to draw randomly or with six panels? I say that the drawings should be contained in six (horizontal) panels. The artist draws what they hear during the story or the PQA – it doesn’t matter – through the six panels, numbering each one (1 through 3 across the top and 4
I got a reflection piece from jen that I am happy to share here. It is lengthy but with stuff like this it is definitely worth the read. This idea of reflecting on our work is almost like sending in a video. It is a reflection on her first “official” story and, quite frankly, it
In her bio, Carla expressed the concern that it was too long. Actually many people have voiced that concern. It’s never too long. If you think about the two ways we are going to make this site work, they revolve around: 1. knowing each other well enough to put up average to shitty video footage
Trumpet call please – Bryce’s new website is up! It’s been in the making for some time. It’s an awesome site. It feels very “Brycie” in that friendly way of his, it’s got this great color green thing going on, and it is loaded with a lot of stuff that Bryce is famous for. The man
Dear Ben, I originally submitted my bio last spring, when I was still just thinking about TPRS. Now, I’m 6 weeks into the new school year and trying to do the best I can with my limited experience. This is now my third year teaching German, levels 1 and 2, in a High School and
These are just some random thoughts on a few threads from yesterday: Brian has called our attention to that thread about freestyle CI, which is Grant Boulanger’s term for talking to the kids in a totally non-targeted way vs. following the three steps and the CI protocols that we have now. It is quite an interesting thread. To read it,
