Notice the war comparisons. Not an accident. We are in a war. We are being wounded. We get most wounded when there is a combination of philosophical attack from within the department (in my case 8 of 10 of were against me), and administrative attack from the top when they find out (wrongly) from the department that there is […]
Robert wrote in a recent comment about DLI: …[At DLI] if someone misses more than two or three days of class, they are dismissed from the program (I know of people who missed because of illness; that doesn’t matter, they missed and therefore were dismissed.)…. While reading those words I suddenly, in proustian fashion (I just wanted to
A gem of a field report from Kevin: Hello all. I’ve just rounded out week 3 of the year, and have to extend a big thanks to all those who have posted/commented here. I’ve gleaned so much already in just a few weeks time, and I know that its helping me each and every class
MB sent this: My principal just sent a database of lesson plans from the federal govt. I looked up “language arts”, delved deeper, and found this site: “How People Learn Languages”. I am not done reading and digging, but it seems interesting for CI based instruction: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/learn.jsp
Skip I know that I am posting on the weekend. I know that our agreement is to take a break and let people read back articles on weekends. But the queue is really jammed. So I will post more this weekend and try to follow our new “weekend rest” policy next weekend. Really, August/September is
Chris tried to comment on the thread below but got 404’d so as I do when that happens I just publish the comment as an article: I’m commenting here to try to resuscitate this discussion that originated here: https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/05/08/request-from-chris/ The initial meeting that took place as an entire county thing didn’t go well. Our Director
David Maust wrote some stuff here last weekend that just has to be repeated for the good of the order, since many of are doing PQA right now: I’m feeling a freedom this year to make extremely simple scenes with my Circling with Balls Cards. Last year I think I tried to develop the cards into larger stories
Kevin, who teaches with Kelly Haanan about five blocks from my house here in Littleton, has an FVR question: Hi Ben, Good to be back on the blog. I’m still trying to carve out some regular time to read and/or respond to all the posts, but I’m slowly getting there. I’m also wondering if you
Hi, I just finished my first TPRS day and I am impressed! I did Circling with Balls with all 5 of my 9th grade classes and I couldn’t believe how enthusiastic and engaged they were. Even the larger classes were on task and focused – it’s usually a battle from the beginning. The 2
Jennifer from NJ reports in: Dear Ben, Here’s my report: Today I got to meet the students in four of my classes. (Tomorrow I will meet the other four classes.) I had the students fill out the questionnaire suggested by Ben from his resources page and on the reverse side of the same sheet, I asked
Here is the actual text of the Then and Now part of the 21st Century Skills Map, just to have it handy in the Administrator/Teacher/Parent Re-education category. Chris you may want to gently suggest to that verb conjugating mom that she take a look at this bad boy. Again, the link to this astounding text
Ardythe has pointed out that [traditional teachers], by indicating they are addressing the common core and 21st century skills, cannot defend their program, and that [we] will be well armed with the information Robert (in italics below) gave: I know I keep saying this, but go to the AP test. As of 2013-2014 the Spanish
