It’s interesting to go back almost two years to see how I did a reading class. Not that different from now, really. This is in India, a reading class based on the original Pringle Man story. (The listening/auditory creation part of the story can be found on YouTube if you search Ben Slavic Pringle Man […]
Say:1. that language acquisition is the same for any age, that all that the students need is to listen to interesting comprehensible input in a low-stress setting. 2. that you don’t use worksheets. 3. that you teach according to the national standard of Communication. 4. that you teach according to the research, which is that
When teachers exclude students from the classroom process because of the way they teach the language (verb conjugations, memorization of lists of words, etc.), what they are really doing is saying that those students are intellectually disabled as language learners. THIS IS IN 100% DIRECT CONFLICT WITH WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS ABOUT THOSE STUDENTS’ ABILITIES
Here is the first in a series of 10′ videos taken from a 7th grade class who last year in 6th grade had a grammar based curriculum. It’s about “Pringles Man” –
I got this from a group member: Hi Ben, I felt the need to be accountable to this. Today is one of those tired days where I just want to let myself take it easy. All our juniors are out of the building on a retreat. In my 2nd hour today there were 6 of
One way to teach prepositions (sorry, this might only work for French) is with a song sung to the tune of London Bridge: sur sous dans (devant, derriere 3X) sur sous dans (devant, derriere 3X) a cote de… pres de loin de (devant, derriere 3X) pres de loin de (devant, derriere 3X) a cote de…
Here is an overview of the StarChart™ by our group members Jesse and Elahe. Jesse calls it “a summary of his experience and understanding of our Zoom CI classes.” It’s a great description of the Star and I suggest that anyone currently reading the Ultimate CI books and/or are currently taking the Ultimate CI Zoom
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Normally, I focus only on content here, but I would like to register something else here in this post today. I am feeling, for the first time in 20 years of slogging through the TPRS/CI wars, real and authentic hope. What does this mean? I’m trying to say here that I finally feel, as I
The difference between doing tableaux vs. stories using the StarChart™ is that stories involve creating a problem and a solution and they also involve people talking, which doesn’t happen in tableaux vivants. This means that in stories there is action in the form of movement of the actors from one point to another, and dialogue,
The old idea of “spare the rod and spoil the child” is out of date. It doesn’t align with the paradigm shift we are in. What shift? Basically, in my view, the shift is about learning to love one another – an ancient idea that we seem to never get each time that it’s delivered
