Update from Ohio

This from Chris today: I went to our state’s FL conference over the weekend and first of all, Susan Gross is fantastic! Second, I ran into one of the Spanish teachers at our high school and she asked me “You use that TPRS, don’t you?”. She tried sounding nice when asking this question, and it

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Ridiculous Conversations 1

I found this absurd conversation between two teachers online in a language discussion group for teachers. Who the teachers are doesn’t matter. Rather, I bring it to the attention of our group because it displays a very common mindset among language teachers that kids whine and don’t hand in work due to faults in their

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AP Changes 5

We must stay conscious of what is really happening here. It is the end of one way of doing things on the AP and the beginning of another. A deep and dramatic paradigm shift that has been decades in coming has finally reached its tipping point. It’s been coming since 1963 – search the article

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New Site Up

The new design of this site is now completed, so go check it out:  www.benslavic.com If you find errors, and there will  perhaps be many, please let me know. Comments and/or suggestions are welcome. Go see your testimonial and thanks again for those. Some are still being added. The overall goal was to make it easier

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Matava’s Best

Drew requested a list of best Matava scripts for levels 1 and 2. If you wish, and have three to five really good ones that you could rank in order of effectiveness in the classroom at whatever level, pls. comment below. I would bet that the best scripts are the same for many of us. My

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