With new words, ask for mental associations to help the kids remember them. You can see this done occasionally in some of the videos. How

Think about the gut reaction that a child must have to going into a language classroom and being forced to memorize a long list of

Those present at the training (Gp. 9, Session 6) on Saturday saw some pretty high quality “mais” bleating from Danielle, whose talents as an artist

When we teach robotically, we get robot-like responses. But when we teach from our hearts, using body and heart-centered activities that reach the oft-closed hearts

The next Book 1 training is from April 2 – May 7. (Group 10)  The next Book 2 training is from May 14 – June

Most people doing the Star are familiar with the basics of how the artist’s job functions, but there is so much more. So if you

Group member Kyle Kolacek’s coaching session last week (link below) is a good watch for people trying to learn the Star. It’s because we keep

Our website here is going through some positive changes for patrons and I wanted to update everyone about them: 1. I am now offering –

There is a series of asanas (poses) in yoga called the Sun Salutation. Not just a single asana, it consists of many poses, with one

Things to remember when you start a trip around the StarChart™: 1. Make sure that you have an artist in place who knows to create

Going down the grammar rabbit hole not only automatically divides the class down the good memorizers and the bad memorizers, but there is a lot

By insisting that our students go down the grammar rabbit hole with us, they build an antipathy for us and what we are requiring them

Dr. Slobodan Aureliac Chzechzevsky has famously said: “If the heart is not involved, language acquisition is impossible.”

Grammar is like a rabbit hole that you go down into in order to avoid actual eye contact and back-and-forth, reciprocal sharing of ideas with

Attached below is the new and updated version of the StarChart™. Thanks to Denise Lionetti for suggesting the changes added into Phase 1. The addition

It is easy to lose track of what is going on when you have five classes (or more!) and thus have to make five  trips

If you are not feeling very confident about how to go from QL4 to QL 5/QL6 on the Star, which is that dramatic moment when

Some obvious reasons why TPRS/CI has failed in many if not most buildings: 1. The culture of the language instruction has accepted that teaching out

Teachers interested in the Ultimate CI approach are invited to join us here on Patreon for weekly UCI coaching sessions.  These are informal drop-in sessions

Natural targeting is a term I just created. It’s what we do in the Ultimate CI approach. What is it? Instead of pulling targets from

I want to make sure that all benslavic.com patrons – even if they aren’t taking the current Group 9 UCI Book 1 training – get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCLzWnZbMoQ&t=139s

Robert Harrell once responded to a teacher whose administrator was of the opinion that her teaching was not challenging enough, not rigorous enough. If that

Here is class 2 for Group 9, edited down to the good stuff: https://youtu.be/UCLzWnZbMoQ