Ryan reported in June at the end of the year from Washington State: So, I am sitting here in 1st Period looking at my students’ final exams for Honors Spanish 1, and just started crying. All year, I have been second guessing myself, wondering if I am doing enough, and feeling like a slacker as […]
Hi Ben, I’m completely immersed in your new book! I have a question. I am not completely fluent in French – more just proficient. I am working on it and improving, but frankly, I mostly feel fearful of jumping into this full force because of this fact. Has this come up before? Any advice you
Tina and I start our two day summer workshops in Philadelphia on July 10th. See the schedule here: https://benslavic.com/blog/updated-summer-workshop-schedule/ While we are gone, those wishing to read posts from over the past ten years of the PLC here are best advised to use the search bar – it is the fastest and easiest way to find
Thanks to Dick Detwiler in Philadelphia we had a great experience. Each city seems to have its own kind of feel, in terms of the people. We both loved being back in the south – there is a real genteel feeling in this part of the country – kindness is real and so is the
PLC member and wonderful host Dick Detwiler here in Souderton, PA outside of Philadelphia just made Tina and me this spectacular tortilla espanola for breakfast. (In the back of the photo is a shoo-fly pie – which had a fruit fly hovering over it until Dick expertly shooed it away – which is unique to the Pennsylvania
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We can now use class-generated Invisibles stories as reading resources for our students. The idea of using class stories as reading resources is something Phil Smith in Ireland addressed here on the PLC just a few weeks ago: https://benslavic.com/blog/class-stories-as-reading-resources/comment-page-1/#comment-84867 Now, Brett Chonko in Virginia adds to Phil’s idea. Here is Brett’s new website: www.comprehensibleRVA.wordpress.com Brett explains: Pleasure
Andrew Rosene of Charlotte, NC had the best line I heard at the Cascadia conference which I keep thinking about over and over: “If you are truly teaching to the eyes, then you will know what to say next.” It’s kind of the ultimate badass comment about non-targeted input. It is a triumphant statement that
Things to try to put into your OWI teaching that we learned in the Cascadia coaching sessions: Work on pacing. Allow yourself to go slowly. Walk to the words. Put your hand on the word when you say it. Count at least four seconds between each word or word chunk. There is a feeling in a
Elena Overvold, in a late night Cascadia Conference small group setting with Lina Rubio and Erin Anthony coaching session on the Word Chunk Team Game, improved on the only weakness in the game, for those who are familiar with it: When the kids put their heads together to try to get the answer to the question,
Q. The word is out that Tina has something better than jGR/mGR and the other (already great) assessment rubrics that originated on this site and that align CI so well with the ACTFL Three Modes of Communication. This is very big news. Udo asked when that new document (actually two of them, one is a CI Scope
