Teacher: I’m mostly focused on what to do for procedures since classroom management has been my Achilles heel, and find myself overwhelmed with ideas how to structure my lesson plans. I know you said to stick to more traditional for now because it’s a new school, but I keep writing down ideas and then trying […]
In this article I hope to show how two of the bread-and-butter terms of TPRS and of the CI movement in general, two terms that people really like to spend lots of time on in trainings and summer conference, are largely unnecessary and tend to obfuscate and confuse new CI practitioners. Let’s start with something
People who like to micromanage sometimes think that the Interpersonal Skill grade at 65% is too much, but it’s the most accurate grade we have. We are experts in assessing observable non-verbal behaviors and people who don’t teach a language aren’t. We see things they can’t see in kids’ eyes. If a kid isn’t able
Here’s an update on where we stand on the various topics we’ve been discussing over the summer: I haven’t forgotten our classroom management initiative (of writing the book here over the next year). I just have to accept that that (long dreamed of by me) book will get done when it gets done. We have
Craig just found this on somebody’s site online. Maybe elementary teachers could use it. Credit: not given, but I’m pretty sure those are my classroom rules.
Free Choice Reading (FCR) came up in discussion yesterday. Here is a video of Greg’s presentation on FCR at NTPRS this year in Chicago – not to be shared outside of the PLC.
I can’t post graphics in comment fields so I’m putting this here for Craig. Craig, I really like the simplicity here vs. the instructional cycles. But as I said in the comment field, this star is the DNA for the instructional cycles.
We’ve got to design curriculums that include all our students. It’s time for that. The research screams for such a need. Or are we going to continue to embrace the failed curriculums of the past, with the result that our upper levels classes remain shamefully lily white? If you want to be a part of
Greg gives a great report on OWL in the comment fields in the OWL – 1 post if you want to check it out – https://benslavic.com/blog/owl/. Here’s my opinion of OWL after reading his report:
A repost: Got this from Jen: I keep meaning to ask about this. Are you/is anyone in the group familiar with OWL? The Methodology Someone I met last year at Skip’s conference had been to one of the trainings. It seems very similar to what we do, with the exception of the 100% TL. For
We all know that Krashen’s research says nothing about targeting vocabulary, but CI teachers do it in stories anyway in order to get the kids to learn the lists of words that they think are necessary to acquire a language. Why do it if it’s not necessary? Because they erroneously think that they need to
The biggest problem with TPRS has always been that they tell you try to use the novels too early, before all of your students have had enough auditory input to be able to properly read. When I say problem I mean “problem for me”. I’m sure there are many teachers for whom TPRS goes really
