If you are a new teacher doing Circling with Balls right now, be careful. You may not be going SLOW-Li enough. You probably aren't. You know that you are going too fast if even one single kid in your class

We won't know that they all understood until we teach a class that ends with great enthusiasm expressed by most of the kids. It can't be called a successful story if it was the creation of the instructor and a handful of fast processors. We must

So what is the other way besides personalization to make sure that ALL of the kids in our classrooms have a positive experience with us? It is by going slowly enough that they all get it. Personalization and SLOW -

There was a girl who was failing all her classes. Her demeanor was just plain mean. But she was thriving in my CI classroom. She was actually the class superstar. She told me, when I asked once if I

I don't believe I have ever done a comprehension check when I haven't said to myself, "So and so's lying there with that 8." 8 is merely the cut off number for avoiding the radar, for flying under it. In

Susan responded to: http://www.benslavic.com/blog/2011/08/04/the-muddler-hypothesis/comment-page-1/#comment-20554 with the following comment: The key to slow enough is comprehension checks. Not the hold up your fingers which tells the teacher a bit but not much. Instead, do a comprehension check about every 3 questions or so. Comprehension

A month ago Anne wrote a most poignant description of seeing one of they Hogs recently and how the scene in her school this next year is not what it was over past years with a new administration team. She described