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 […]
[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
One of the most beautiful things and something I believe to be true is that whenever a person on earth lays their head down on a pillow to go to sleep, angels applaud. Angie had her first day today (me my second) and I believe that with all of us revving up the year these days, there is a lot
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
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
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
This is a repost from last year. Allison would love some more feedback. She may be new at this but she sure takes the three structures and gets a story going with ease in this first of six short clips that we can all comment on. Here is the link and pls. tell her what you
Bob added a coda to his previous song: A couple of things to add here at the end of my third week: 1. I’ve never used Circling with Balls until this year quite like you teach, but I did it by the book. With classes of 32-35, 6 times a day. Today, I realized how
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
Bob Patrick has consented to keep sending reports from his classroom. I do think it should be a regular installment here but we have to respect his time and we will take what we can get. I think he is in Week 4 down there in Atlanta but the queue was jammed so this one
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
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
