Native Speakers
We have tons of articles on strategies to engage misplaced (by advisement) native speakers in our classes. As we have said many times here, we would not place a chemist in a beginning chemistry class. The best strategy we have for
Stink-o-Copter
A teacher has locked horns with a parent simply because he uses best practices in foreign language instruction. Again, right? Who in our group has NOT had to schlep this scene? I think that he handled it beautifully: The parent: Bonjour, I wanted
Parent Letter Sample from Laurie Clarcq
As we think about how we want to introduce what we do to parents next year, Michael Coxon found this from Laurie Clarcq. We'd be crazy not to use it at parents night or in a parent letter home at
Parents Night – 3
This post from 2011 also relates to the topic of Parents Night: Hi Ben, I teach French, grades 4-6. Wednesday night is our parent open house - students walk around the school with their parents to show them their classrooms, and take
Communication with Parents – Standards Based
A repost from a year ago: In this communication Robert and a parent, we almost have a template from Robert that we could modify to use to answer inquiries like the one he recently received below: Hi Ben, I'm sending you an e-mail exchange that
jGR Defended Twice
Matthew Webster and Nathaniel Hardt have written in defense of jGR, or the Interpersonal Communication Skills Rubric (ICSR), the following. Teachers new to this powerful rubric can use them in discussions with parents about its enforcement in their classroom. I
Sample Parent Letter
Here is a link to the parent letter that Mary Beth sends out. I don't think she'd mind if any poaching occurred. That's what we do here: Parent Letter - MB
Student Reports – A Possible Template
John sends us a student comment template with pre-fab options to be cut and pasted into the student comment. James take note as we may want to add this into our templates hard link: Ben, I was hoping that the members of
Report from the Field – Diane Neubauer
Diane reports: Hi Ben - I am sending you the copy, without names, of an email I wrote for a parent who complained about jGR - to my supervisors, not to me - recently. (My administrators are great! They are supportive of
jGR and Parents 3
OK time for major celebration. Jeff won. If you aren't aware of that recent thread, read these posts before reading on: http://www.benslavic.com/blog/2012/11/09/jgr-and-parents/ http://www.benslavic.com/blog/2012/11/10/jgr-and-parents-2/ Here is the wonderful report of great growth done by more than one person in this compelling situation that happened over the