Discipline Question 1

In the past fifteen minutes I have received two direct questions about problem kids. Here is the first one: Ben, I go back on Tuesday. My plan is to start the year with your Circling with Balls, or at least some form of it. I have a quick question regarding the Archie videos and targeting […]

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Cresting The Wave

[Note – in this post I use the term intuition. It is actually an edited post from a few years ago but if fits here. It is a post that concrete sequential teachers won’t necessarily embrace. I suggest that you not read this post if you like everything in order. This is a bit on the

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Too Many Stars

The deeper mind learns the language. It is too complex for the conscious mind. We know that. We just don’t pay much attention to that crucial fact. Most language teachers in the world don’t want that to be true. If it were true, they would have to change. And yet it is true. We learn

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Great Rubric

Just a repost. I know people are using this from last week and I thought I would make it nice and accessible. I’ll be showing this bad boy to my students tomorrow so that they can understand how a full half of their grade will be determined. In my opinion, it really does accurately reflect

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Key Question

I got this question from Michael (CO). It needs a great response from our combined talents. It was in the queue and I should have bumped it here earlier bc he needs our answers by tomorrow. Sorry about that, Michael: Hey Ben, Perhaps you could post this question on the PLC blog.  I’ve got a

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Better Sooner Than Later

Bob Patrick sent me this short email about a young Latin teacher in Ohio who wrote the Latin Best Practices List (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latin-bestpractices/) and said: …teaching with TPRS makes me feel like a foreign language teacher – for the first time in my life….  This is a profound statement from a young teacher. Many of us

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Kevin Clemens

Another Latinist (I love using the word Latinist, can you tell?) has joined our group. The Latin presence is strong in our PLC. Ben, By way of introduction… My name is Kevin Clemens. I’m a high school Latin teacher in the north suburbs of Chicago, about to embark upon my third year teaching. I was

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Michele in Iowa

Does anyone have the DPS videos link? I know I’m supposed to have them, and I know they are on SchoolTube, but I can’t find them. We get that request from Michele as well as an update on her trip here: Dear Ben, I seem to have lost the link to the DPS teacher videos. Could you

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