Now that we know exactly who is in the group, and who has and who has not sent in a bio, I don’t want to get behind that train again. So I am going to ask for a bio from every new member when they sign up. In order to make that happen, I will send new members the […]
The teacher of the month in March, if you remember, was Jeff Brickler. Click on this link if you didn’t get to read about what he has done this year, heroically, I might add: https://benslavic.com/blog/2013/02/21/teacher-of-the-month-march-2013/ April’s selection is working now as a substitute teacher. Her name is Angie Dodd and she quit her job in the middle
So the University of Georgia workshop was yesterday, and here is most excellent Bob’s report. Thank you Bob! Hi Ben, Yesterday was simply magnificent–at least from where I stood, and the 30 or so folks from the department seemed to be pleased, too. Here’s a brief on what I did. I was betting that most
Hi Ben, Here’s my bio. Sorry for the delay! Growing up, teaching language was not part of the plan. I was a smart hispanic kid in a tough, urban school district with big goals and ambitions. My parents are both from Mexico, and though I acquired English at a very young age, Spanish was the
I’ve known Guy through conferences for years. A class act. He doesn’t post a lot but here is what we could call a combination Bio and Report from the Field. He is in SoCal. Thanks Guy and will see you in San Diego in a few months. This is my third year of TPRS/CI. My
I always felt as if I didn’t have time to do a parallel novel. But now I realize that the term is misleading. We can spin out into a parallel scene while reading a novel, or we might be able to set up a parallel set of events for more than one scene, possibly up to one
I was coming back on the train from a Denver Nuggets basketball game and saw four teenage girls huddled together and a guy was staring at them. They knew it. It was one of those things you see on trains. I wrote the idea to Matava and she created this below. I named it and
Hi Ben, I know you are busy with updating members on the PLC. There is no hurry on this, but I am getting increasing pleas to do an inservice for the German teachers of my province and the neighbouring one. I keep talking about TPRS and they want to know what I am talking about.
Another Report from the Field that is really a celebration, this one from James: Ben, I thought everyone might like to hear some good news, all of which has roots in our work here in this PLC. My Latin program is growing hugely next year. We got numbers recently and mine are simply stupefying everyone.
So there is jen in NH and Jennifer in NJ just to be clear. This Report from the Field – really a celebration – is from jen in NH: Hi! I just had to share this! I don’t think I have ever had this sort of comment / enthusiasm about my class. Note that it
Bob’s 8 hour workshop with World Language and Literacy Ed department at the University of Georgia is coming up this weekend. Bob – I kind of assume this is a closed workshop but if not let us know here in case anyone in or around Athens or Atlanta might want to attend.
