Nathan sent both a link to his thoughts on homework and an update on those thoughts as well. This will help Lori and everyone following the New Tech thread here this weekend. Then, hopefully, when we identify links to Jim’s ideas, we will be able to put those and all related posts and comments under the […]
We welcome Lori to this group. Indiana has been for some time an active state with comprehensible input: I currently teach at Crestview Middle School in Huntington County, Indiana (the entire school corporation is TPRS-based). I’m not sure yet if I will still be there next year or not. [ed. note: Lori is now at Adams Central
This is just some random self indulgent middle of the night reflecting on things, probably not very interesting except to me: The subscription blog has been up for almost three weeks now and I like it. I like the feeling of privacy, the safety in knowing that a much smaller group of people is reading what
Hi Ben, I teach 7-8 grade Latin at Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco, CA. Early in my study of Latin I was fortunate to come into contact with teachers and colleagues who spoke Latin as a way to encourage interest and proficiency in the language. My experiences with learning a language are what
O.K. this blog entry may wig a few people out. If it starts to make no sense, just stop reading. I think you may have to be a little on the crazy side for it to make sense. It makes sense to me, though, but then I’m a little on the crazy side. So here
This is to introduce a teacher from South Dakota. Like that other one. You know. Susan Gross. That is a good sign! And she mentioned the name of her school, which is cool. Ben, I am looking forward to reading the blog as an official member! I began using TPRS in the fall of 2009 after deciding
My two highlights this year were: – Staying positive with a girl who has experienced abuse all her life at the hands of her mother. She fought tooth and nail not to be included, for about five months, until, as per John’s comments about Pepe, a point was reached somewhere in January where she knew that
Teenagers are trapped. They can’t go back to the joys of their younger days, which were squeezed out of them somewhere between 4th and 7th grade. They can’t go forward either. They’re stuck. Oh, but what wouldn’t they give for a break in their day from the endless boring tasks that led Tolstoy to describe
This is a post that I want to keep front and center until we get moving on it. So I will keep it here as what they call a “sticky” post where it will appear first each time that you log on. We will do this for awhile. We don’t want to turn into designers of
My kids schooled me yesterday on a Susan Gross point. Susan has always coached us to make sure that we “believe the story” as it unfolds. I never worked at that. I was too busy with all that other stuff, right? But, one day last week, the kids made it plain that, even if I
Andrew’s blog entry made me think about next year again. The most effective CI that I do – and crucial to getting the year off on the right foot – is the Circling with Balls cards: https://benslavic.com/documents/Workshop-Handouts-1009.doc I said about a month ago here that I might just try to possibly go completely through the entire
It seems like a lot of the new CI based teachers are around 30. The other day, Diana and I found ourselves sitting at a table with some of our TCI group and Joseph (30), Jesse (29) and Erin (27) were sitting all right across from us. And now here is another blog bio from
