NTCI Testimonial
I got this email in support of what I am doing with the Invisibles, and would like to share it with the group: Ben, The Invisibles are fantastic! Thank you so much. I am in my first few months of using CI
Love – 5
The point about being happy – everyone in the classroom being happy – is at the crux of our discussion, or should be. For many in the CI world, it isn’t. The work has been too much focused on student
L'Art De La Conversation and CI Instruction
This post is from 2009. I republish it here because it is core to the kind of things I want to discuss here in this PLC. It just seems to me odd that if a good conversation is, as it says below, "divorced
Soren Kierkegaard
Personally, I don't like the pressure to create a great story in every class. There is the idea out there that the teacher has to walk into the classroom and create with her students a great story, as long as they
Love Thy Neighbor
Kids only learn things when they feel encouraged, when they are made to feel as if they can genuinely do it. They are very good at faking learning. The old model of forcing kids to sit and listen to our comprehensible
Report from the Field – Steven Ordiano
Hi Ben, In an effort to streamline assessments, I have started an interview process for all of my 2nd year students. I do this as a personalized one-on-one NT CI. It's kinda a farewell gift. Anyway, I have had the best
Art of Conversation
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/11ab9279-35f2-3263-9ba0-82d2a7b497d5/ss_millennials-might-as-well-be.html
A Lot of Fire
For about the past year and a half, Tina and I have been under a lot of fire - since we started talking about the value of non-targeted input in the TPRS/CI community. We have criticized targeting words from word lists,
Maire
We become adept at becoming aware of what we are feeling intuitively as teachers. We learn to feel our way creatively and expansively through a class without a lesson plan. We learn that good language teaching is not all about teaching
Motherese
Here is a link to Alisa's blog. It's a fine article for us to keep in mind as we get ready to crank the comprehensible input engines up again: http://cmovan.edublogs.org/2016/10/24/motherese/