I understand that some schools are requiring teachers to pre-record online lessons. Here is what Alisa says about that: I have to attend trainings now on Schoology, Nearpod, Flipgrid and some iPad apps like Apple Clips, Keynote, Numbers and Pages (it’s a suite) – assuming we’ll need them for remote learning (at least partial, maybe full-on) […]
These people use language differently. They don’t just use words to convey ideas. There is something more to it. Those who descend from these people know about it. We don’t. Maybe some day we will. Their gaze seems to be more inward. It seems like such a different time!
There are so many experts selling CI stuff – disjointed strategies and activities – online now that it has all gotten just too big. It’s like going into one of those huge 800 acre markets in India divided into big sections where there are 570 people who all sell chicken. How much chicken do you
Dogs learn words individually, words like “Sit” or “Fetch” or “Stay”. As humans, we require richer, more contextual input. So it is probably best that we learn languages in context, and not from individual lists of words where CI is used with the goal of making sure that certain individual vocabulary words have been learned
This is from Frank James Johnson, the first person to join the PLC back in 2005 when it was known as “The Blog”: Ben: Russian orchestra conductor Valery Gergiev: “The conductor’s eyes convey almost all of it. His hands give the orchestra a rhythmic hint: ‘Play now!’ But how to play is not in the
Becker sent us this link to my last Teacher’s Discovery webinar. Thanks John: Ben – Here’s the Google Drive link – looks like it was all posted by Chuck Verhey of Teacher’s Discovery. The folder has a copy of the video, a copy of the seating chart, Star Chart, and a transcript of the video.
The old mission of this online community was simply to get better at what we do. This includes classroom management, awareness of the research, how to deal with tough kids, etc. We’ve done a good job for over 15 years on that. Now, with Minnesota, we move into the real mission. It is my prayer
Can you imagine the frustration there must be in trying to learn a language in the old way? I got the email below from a front line worker in NYC. I include my responses – in bold – because they bear heavily on why your are a member of this PLC: Hello Ben,I am a
2022 is going to be the year I throw ” all I got” at the racism piece in our field. If we don’t start teaching in a way that actively includes brown and black kids, and if we don’t develop and use a curriculum that brings an even playing field, then what are we doing?
Since 2018 I’ve been writing a book on classroom management in the CI classroom. I threw it in the trash in my computer today. Why? Because it’s a waste of time to write and to read a book about classroom management. How can we possibly remember everything in the book and apply it in the
Julia’s students have extended the idea of making clay figures out of their invisible characters into little claymation projects. Described below is the first Invisibles claymation project ever done. When thinking about the end-of-year celebration, after two months of projects, I can just imagine the joy in a class as the kids, the parents, staff,
