I got this email from jen today. It could have been anyone of us but it was jen. Due to it’s intensity, I’m limiting posts for four days for us to properly appreciate and react to what is going on as she takes – to say it mildly – some heat. We need a brain break […]
Chill reports: Hi, Ben: I always worry how my kids will fare when they leave the confines of my classroom and head off to college. I received this e-mail from a freshman at Virginia Tech. Granted Justin was motivated and went beyond the call of duty. With that said, he surely walked through the door
Dear Ben Hope you’re gearing up well for the new school year. I wanted to share this. I was teaching a student last week who I’ve been teaching privately in two hour 1:1 sessions on and off for about nine months – about the same time as my membership in the PLC. And I reflected on how much the
There are a number of articles dealing with classroom management here under the category of Classroom Discipline. However, there is a certain kind of kid who is in a category by himself and those I call pigs. I don’t know why I use that term. It doesn’t matter. There is therefore a Pigs category here,
Panel 9 of the Illustrations of Best Practices from Atlanta Public Schools – and please remember that this series of articles first appeared in this space in 2009. This is a reprise and it is highly possible that the Georgia tenets in slide show form are no longer in place or approved by the state
Let’s try Panel 8: Seek ways to include meaningful culture content in every lesson and every unit. It is not clear what language they mean for the Georgia teachers to use here, L1 or L2. If they are asking teachers to teach about the target culture in the target language to children, that ain’t gonna
I think it’s amazing. We don’t have just one job – teaching kids – we have three. The other two jobs are: 1. trying to constantly grow and change into the 21st century way language will be taught, and 2. keeping up with all the emails we have to read from over wonderful administrators who think that
It occurred to me that if I write less articles, I can publish more of yours and release more of the articles stuck now in the queue. My fear is that I will talk a big ball game about offering training to new people here and then not do it because our conversations about the
When you run the grueling sport of cross country, it’s easy to slow down. You’re running at a high rate of speed for miles and all you want to do is slow down. Then someone comes along next to you and you have to speed up. It may be a teammate or somebody from some other
Teacher of the Month – August 2013 – Mary Beth Tietgens Read More »
Here is Panel 7: Plan and teach around a theme. In this panel, the Georgia teachers who wrote this plan for teaching languages gave a fine example of some written student work on the theme of endangered species. It was great. It was also written by a superstar. Let me think about this – teaching
Lori sent this: There is a really exciting opportunity for anyone in the Delaware, Southern PA or North Maryland region. My department chair and I are currently creating a TPRS/CI curriculum and just found out today that we will be needing another Spanish teacher. Please send me a message at loribelinsky@gmail.com Warm Regards, Lori B
James Hosler wrote an article to share with the group that is pretty important. I will time stamp this same article for August, as I see it as important as jGR in some ways. I am creating a category called jGA – James’ Great Argument – for it. It’s on a topic most of us deal with all the time,
