SUPER LONG RANT FOR A SUNDAY: A teacher in Kazakhstan asked a question this morning that prompted this rant. Sorry about that. I think, however, that it is important to look at the history of what is happening in our field right now. Sorry about any typos – I have to watch the Broncos game […]
Here it is, what I think of an upgrade to the jGR rubric, for those familiar with it who have been reading here for a long time. Not to say jGR (can be searched in the search bar) doesn’t rock the house. It does. And some of the articles on it are compelling and defend
Far better than searching for something using the categories, for example bail out moves which is a current thread, is to use the search bar just to the right. The categories aren’t as accurate and will return less posts.
I say with certainty after almost two years of writing and talking with Tina and writing a book with her on the topic that in CI we – Tina and I – need something less amorphous than TPRS. The Three Steps of TPRS nailed down a process – the Three Steps – that nailed down how
Tina and I have a system for classroom management. I hope I’m not being rude, but so many teachers try things that “might work” and they tinker and tinker and the years go by and they hate their jobs because they don’t have a dedicated and defined easy to implement and follow SYSTEM. They even
There are, over the past ten years, 6,834 posts here and 51,625 comments on this PLC. This one is by far the single most important of all of them: Sometimes things come into our daily routines that blow our minds. It happens so rarely. But on my PLC today Greg Schwab shared a link that
This is a repost from a few years ago: In one of my classes a boy named Fernando seems to enjoy writing at least two quizzes per class. It’s his way of getting back at the slackers. It’s like the two of us our conspiring to hold the other kids accountable, because we both know
This morning Margarita Pérez García in NZ sent me this email. It’s something of a celebration that that the Invisibles have made it down there to join the Hobbits: Hey Ben – The invisibles not only work but are contagious! A colleague (who is leaving NZ and will be back soon in Spain) came last
I send out a kind of blurb letter that I send to new members of the PLC as they join us here, and decided to share it here with experienced members of the group: Hey ______ – welcome to the PLC! Please explore some of the cut and paste articles that are on the “Primers”
Q. I can’t get my kids to really listen to each other. They are always blurting over each other. A. You have to use the Classroom Rules with a smile. Every time. Each and every time there is blurting or talking over, simply take a deep breath, walk calmly and slowly over to the Classroom
In the video below we see Sammy Davis, Jr. tell the guy with the cigar in no uncertain terms to put it out. He did so at the very moment he became aware of it. Do we do this in class when our kids talk? In the very moment it begins, do we stop it?
We were talking recently about teachers who just walk away from the profession for their mental health, citing that situation in Utah where Paul left and Amy fights on. Brian Olive – only those who were reading here five years ago or so will remember – was a TPRS/CI rising star in those days but
