A question from Memphis, TN: Good morning Mr. Slavic, My name is Caitlin Zon and I’m a teacher at a charter school in TN. I’m in my second year of teaching and I teach 6th grade Spanish and support literacy instruction. I actually had the pleasure of attending one of your workshops this summer in […]
Annemarie shares two more badass rubrics along the lines of Grant’s. She says: So, here is the rubric I created for my needs which I adapted/copied from Grant’s rubric. Any feedback on it? It’s very similar but I guess more compact and goes with the 1-4 scale. Next week I have to present on of my standards
Rosetta Stone: Does not provide compelling input, research reports at best suggestive, conflicting reports on users’ attitudes. Stephen Krashen International Journal of Foreign Language Education, 2013, vol. 8 (1). (Cited in the article is one of our young DPS TCI teachers, Joseph Dietzic). Article begins here: I comment here on Rosetta Stone, language teaching software.
James provides us with a link to work by Helena Curtain. He says: I can make some popcorn this weekend and enjoy these three hours of Helena Curtain: http://vimeo.com/12517821
I got this from James this morning: Ben, Today for the first time I tried SSR. It was in a Latin 2 class. We went for 30 minutes (!) without a peep and, as I could observe, actual focus on the text. I think this was because they could actually understand what they were reading,
This is a series of emails between our Denver Public Schools World Language Coordinator and Grant Boulanger, who is at the center of the change in St. Paul, MN. In it, what CI actually is comes up and fits into many of our recent discussion. I publish those emails here with both Diana and Grant’s
This new category – Greg’s Great Questions (gGQ) – is of upmost importance to new people. Those following the thread know that Greg Stout in Durham, NC joined this group last weekend and since then has done at least six months of growth into the method. (applause meter very high on that last sentence.) I described to him
I know that we’re getting too many of these funky little acronyms with the small letter first and the two caps. It’s because jen’s name starts with a j, if you know the history. Well, I am adding one more to the categories today – gGR (Greg’s Great Questions) – and I know it’s confusing but
So Sabrina recorded her class in early Feb. I haven’t gotten to it yet. jen is planning to do it in March. The problem is I ain’t feelin’ it. I should have gotten on it right away but I got into this wrting thing. Now the time difference is weird. To remedy this I suggests
We must remember that many language teachers went into teaching because they were really good at languages in school, and people choose careers in things they are good at. This explains the slowness of the change away from grammar. If a child grew up being able to mechanically manipulate grammar in the same way that one
So I’ve been working lately with a really good text written by a kid for a writing sample (data gathering) in preparation for the DPS exit post assessment in April. I have found some productive things to do with this text beyond merely sharing it with the class before scoring it for the grade (DPS rubric
