I’m currently rewriting Stepping Stones to Stories, adding a lot of the ideas we have dicussed/developed this year to it. Here is a text that is still in draft form that I wrote over break about the Ten Minute Deal. If those in the group use the Ten Minute Deal, please read this over and […]
Things are looking brighter than ever. Interest in TPRS and Krashen is up. From time to time I will be posting information about the trainings and conferences available in coming months. There is no doubt that nothing can replace a strong conference. Louise Walker in CA wants to know if anyone in our PLC will
Linda Li is in my view the only teacher I have seen who has mastered the skill of SLOW. It’s that rare to see a CI teacher speak slowly enough. There is even a term in the TPRS community to describe how slow is slow enough in a storytelling class, SLOW-LI (credit: Robert Harrell). Linda’s
I was reading a comment by David Sceggel over break and noticed that in it he mentioned a job – a really cool one – that is not even listed in our list of 62 jobs on this site. It’s called the Class Photographer: The teacher assigns a class photographer whose job is to quietly
This is from Jody: This is not an activity, but is a good reminder that since our classroom expectations can fall off our student’s screens pretty easily over a vacation, it is important to do a “reset” on the very first day back. I extracted and summarized an article I read today from the Smart
Annick shares her jGR/Interpersonal Skills self evaluation form with us. Thank you Annick! Interpersonal Cummunication Self Evaluation Form 2015
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Sentences Frames are a possibility after a vacation. Read more: https://benslavic.com/blog/sentence-frames/ Blog https://benslavic.com/blog/sentence-frames-3/ https://benslavic.com/blog/sentence-frames-4-add-a-lie/ https://benslavic.com/blog/rsf-sentence-frames-5/ https://benslavic.com/blog/rsf-sentence-frames-6/ Also there is this popular strategy from Sabrina: https://benslavic.com/blog/two-truths-and-a-lie/
Few who have tried using a timer dispute this student job’s effectiveness. For many of us, it has become a crucial job and in my opinion is essential for teachers with classroom management problems. Many teachers have by now adopted a strategy of trying to stay in the TL (both teacher and students) for ten minute periods at a time. But sometimes
Here is an exit ticket that Annemarie Orth asks those who observe her classes to fill out. I love the idea of giving them a form to fill out, just as the students are sometimes required to do in the form of a self reflection ticket or a quiz. Annemarie is all about metacognition and
Here is a list of former teachers of the month in our PLC. I felt like listing them here for us to look back on over the past few years to reflect on and appreciate some of the voices who have really infused and enhanced our thinking, helping us along the Road of Change, that
Our new colleagues in Australia Ian and Caitlin have a story that is just what we all need to hear as we get ready to crank out the CI in the next few weeks: Hi Ben, I’d like to tell you a story about something that happened recently. A bit of feedback. Caitlin is my
This work is so multi-layered. Peeling the layers of an onion is truly appropriate to describe what we do. John made reference to this idea once in this comment: …there are SO MANY THINGS about CI that my head wants to explode. The depths will not be plumbed…. Yes. The TPRS/CI onion is many layered.
