David asks the group: Hi Ben, I’d like to learn how some of the other teachers on the blog keep track of the Interpersonal Communication / Participation part of a students grade in their gradebook. What follows is what I do now, which isn’t a great system, but I had to start somewhere. I’m trying […]

Ben, We had an inservice day and all of us had to go to the high school for workshops.  I ran into one of the high school Spanish teachers (keep in mind nobody at the high school knows I do TPRS) and she mentioned to me that she went to one of the Blaine Ray

Por casualidad, Sue conoce a una persona muy famosa en SeedSavers. ¡Conoce a Barack Obama! Sue lo conoce en agosto cuando el presidente está visitando Decorah. A las siete y uno de la tarde lo conoce. Sue se le olvidó el reloj, pero sabe la hora porque Lyle tiene un reloj cu-cu en su mochila.

Sue conoce a una persona muy famosa en SeedSavers. ¡Conoce a Barack Obama! Sue lo conoce en agosto cuando el presidente está visitando Decorah. A las siete y uno de la tarde lo conoce. En el momento que conoce a El Presidente Obama, Sue le dice, “Mucho gusto, me llamo Sue.” El presidente no le

These short French 2 clips from the “Histoire de Bubhakemeier” from East High last spring never seem to end. In this one it is because I took an entire second day on the story just to do a location 3, which is rare but I wanted to get some reps on some of the out of bounds

I have an inherent negative gut reaction to the AP language exams. I think they are profit driven corporate jokes. They make us crazy (the French AP exam certainly made me crazy with unecessary stress and worry in SC for all those years). We let that happen. It’s our fault for giving away power to a corporation.

I got this from Norm Veilleux in Canada: Ben, Just came across this: http://www.everydaylanguagelearner.com/2011/10/31/ideas-for-reinventing-americas-language-education-system/ Some pretty radical input-friendly stuff. I’m very much headed in this direction and have already implemented some of these ideas, as have many of us in the TPRS community. My newest project is using a Moodle site as the base for

This is a republished blog post requesting testimonials and photos for a site redesign I am doing: I have a request. If you are willing to send in a photo to be used with a testimonial on the home page of this site, please send both the photo and the testimonial and photo to me at benslavic@yahoo.com.

Have you heard about the next planned “Survivor” show? Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an middle school classroom for one school year. Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district’s curriculum, and a class of 25-32 students. Each class will have a minimum of five learning-disabled children,

David is another SoCal teacher in our group: I am in my eighth year of teaching Latin at California High School in Whittier, California. Cal-High is a public high school of just over 3,000 students, mostly Latino/Hispanic and has a variety of programs including a number of “Academies” for kids to specialize in a particular

Our first reading in German comes from Le Chevalier de l’Ouest: Hi Ben, Attached is a TPRSesque reading that arose from class discussion of Anne Matava’s “The Refrigerator Story”. This class likes killing off people. Ryan is a student in the class who has cooking just before German. He had some muffins that he had baked

Michele sent this: http://thetalentcode.com/2011/11/08/a-word-of-coaching-advice-talk-less-matter-more/