Cute Idea #9: Pets A powerful way to get kids quickly involved in class is to talk about their pets: Some teachers ask their students to produce drawings of their pets on their Card Talk cards, in addition to things they like to do. This is a good move. Instant discussions of high quality happen […]
Here’s another question: Hi Ben, I have a situation that is tough and I’m not sure where to go with it. This is what I’ve sent to one of the counselors (and have asked him to come observe): I am in need of some help. I have a student who is diagnosed with ASD in
A question from Salema Jenkins in KY: Hi Ben, Concerning a mixed 7th and 8th grade class I received an email from a parent asking if her 8th grade daughter will be prepared for Spanish 2 in high school. I will be doing BICS, Invisibles, etc. in this class all year after your recent trainings
Corinne Bourne is a long time member of our community. An interesting fact about Corinne is that she is the master of, to my knowledge, at least four languages. She is in Northern California and has sad news about the effect of the Carr fire on her community. Everyone is encouraged to send in “reports
Laura asks: Is it a good idea to assign jobs as permanent actors? Actors are not listed as jobs in ANATTY. I have always just picked someone on the spot, or had the owner of the character be the actor when doing invisibles. This last hasn’t proved so productive sometimes such a student is to
There is a descriptor for one of the other CI Facebook sites – CI/TPRS for French Teachers – that caught my eye yesterday: “We welcome any new or experienced teachers who want to share and improve their CI skills. “There are many ways of providing comprehensible input in the classroom: Total Physical Response (TPR), Teaching
Perhaps the tipping point over to CI has actually been reached. For fifteen years in this space (eleven of them private), I have heard teachers expressing their concerns that CI cannot be fitted into every single curricular/philosophical model being used throughout the entire school building. Their concerns have always been sprinkled with a low grade
Dr. Lynch is going to be vacationing off the Maine coast next week and when I heard that news I mentioned to Julia that two of the best CI teachers – in my opinion – in the entire world are both, by chance, located right about where she will be vacationing. So, no vacation! Only
Sierra Middle School in Colorado Springs is hosting Mike Peto on Friday, September 21, for his “My Perfect Year” workshop. Here is the flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws3wSSUoXkyYl9XVUkxcjBZTExraVgxVjlOaEJYaURpWUNj/view The workshop is $69 and participants will receive a copy of Mike’s My Perfect Year book.
Cute Idea #8: The Questionnaire This idea was developed many years ago by master teacher Anne Matava. If you learn that Jeff has an interest in cars, during card talk or just talking with him in the hallway, developing that true statement into all kinds of imaginative comprehensible input can greatly strengthen the quality of your
Tina wrote the following on the CI Liftoff page. It is a start in responding to the heavy-handed people in your department who still target grammar on common assessments and other tests. It’s a vigorous way to respond to them, and you may not want to do that, so you should only respond to such
Back in the early 1990s, Dale Crum was one of what I call the Four Pillars of TPRS w/ Joe Neilson, Blaine Ray and a bit later on Susan Gross. In the oddest set of coincidences, I see Dale on his bike around Denver every year or two. Those who in our PLC go back
