Teaching Introverts

From Dana: Good morning, Ben, This isn’t a new article, but it’s timely given what you’ve been posting on the PLC. I think it reinforces your belief of teaching to the eyes and the need to create a classroom community. http://blog.ed.ted.com/2014/09/10/how-to-teach-a-young-introvert-2/

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Jabba

The unpardonable distortion of the science in order to protect corporate profits is well known in the tobacco, sugar and GMO industries. In the textbook industry, as long as teachers, even TPRS/CI teachers, connect their instruction in some way to the table of contents of a textbook (which – to a hysterically inaccurate degree –

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Out of Touch ACTFL

In the insightful question below, Dana Miller-Kitch calls out ACTFL. The fact of the matter is that ACTFL’s wording in their web pages, things like the 90% use position statement, much of what they say, is completely inaccurate and unachievable in the real world. We do not prepare our kids for anything in American schools

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Equity

Without the equity piece, we don’t have community in our classrooms. Without community, the inclusion of ALL of the kids, then we can’t make comprehensible input work in our classroom. it is because of the nature of language as per: https://benslavic.com/blog/lart-de-la-conversation-and-tprs/ I know I link to this post a lot. It is because I am

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Iceberg

In the following image, the iceberg mass that is breaking off represents the  S/S docs, pacing guides in the world of language instruction. It’s time to deep six them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAqqHQcJyU

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A Lot of Fire

For about the past year and a half, Tina and I have been under a lot of fire – since we started talking about the value of non-targeted input in the TPRS/CI community. We have criticized targeting words from word lists, backwards planning of awkwardly written novels, aligning CI instruction with the teaching of grammar/pacing guides/scope and

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