A group member sent this question in: My school has chosen me to lead our department in training the FL teachers to teach IB b/c our school is going wall to wall IB next year.They are sending me to this FLIBS (The Florida League of International Baccalaureate Schools, Inc.) training. I’m wondering if it will […]

We are making it through April, which is big news in itself. To various relative degrees, we are all hurting, certainly. Teaching does that. I think it was Hazrat Inayat Kahn who said that spirituality is right adjustment to other people. I hope that includes teens. April saw us bust open the SBG topic, led by

From Jim Tripp: Ben, could you post this for me? I’m in a bit of a crunch, deadlines fast approaching. I’m planning a trip for next Spring or Summer with a group of students. Does anyone have any thoughts on good companies to travel with? I’ve been looking at Explorica (great perks for group leaders)

From Ben Lev in CA. Everybody have at it. It could make the difference in a job or not. Suggest anything – Ben doesn’t have to use it: Hi Ben, Maybe people in the PLC can help me with this. For financial reasons I have to look for a new classroom job. There are a

Group I have a very serious request. I am getting ready to try to take all the most important content on this site over the past seven years and make some videos explaining it with an eye to making it available to new people. In that interest, I ask you to just toss out some

Here is a Report from the Field from Greg, who started TPRS/CI only about ten weeks ago, and has never been to a workshop: I have to share some good news from an observation today – especially some great reactions from an administrator. I’ve had several good days since I started using CI, but today

I’m sure this is on our list of bail out moves, but a simple R & D is totally kick ass when it comes to eating up minutes and getting through the hard month of April. Don’t want to teach a certain class? Tell them to shut up (ok, be nice), let them know that

James posted a comment today that I would like to use as a jumping off point for a discussion that will lead to rubrics to join jGR to align our grading with the Interpretive and Presentation Modes as well. For convenience until we come up with real names, I am calling: jGR 1 – Interpersonal

We must give the kids proper punctuation instructions. I sometimes forget to say, for example, “point” for a period. This confuses them. So I am going to try to do that better. Adolescents need clarity. Sabrina addresses this: I have taught punctuation from day one with all of my classes. So I have one transparency

Here’s Kevin’s bio: Salvete Omnes! I joined the PLC at the start of this school year and learned a ton, but took a few months away while my son (now almost a year old) learned the value of sleep. It’s great to be back. I’m finishing up my third year teaching high school Latin at

…when I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child

I got this question from a group member: Ben do we have a stand alone rubric for the Interpretive Mode like jGR ? I responded: No, and I don’t see one happening. Interpreting input is an individual process within each kid and I don’t see how it can really be measured in a real way,