This one is based on the star: Steps Used in Summative Testing in an Invisibles Classroom (based on a 3-hour testing period – adjust the time amounts given below to fit your available testing minutes) 1. Spend 100 minutes creating a story as is done using the questioning levels in the Create phase of a […]
It is possible to group the reading options by type, as per this idea from Alisa:
This is to update the reading options that I invented years and years ago, in about 2008 I think it was. There had always been 20 of them, but for my new book I reduced the number to 12, after some communication with Krashen in 2015. Here is the new version, for both experienced and
Carly has an update from this last post, for those who have been using this activity: Here’s the update: Hey Ben! I did another gallery walk this week and it was great so I wanted to tell you about it. I’m full on in the middle of the story project right now, but we had
It doesn’t matter if they’re learning or not; it matters if they think they’re learning.
It’s refreshing to see department heads who are even aware of NTCI as an option for their schools. David Brady wrote this to me in an email today: Lots to consider as we make this monumental paradigm shift to CI-based teaching. Upon reflecting, I think our penchant for curriculum mapping is a vestige of the
I interviewed myself: Q. What is your intent in teaching? A. My intent is to explore the beauty of the French language for myself, because I love it, while getting paid to share ideas with my students in a loving way. If some of them pick up on the beauty of the language and want
The Free Write bar graph, at the bottom of this list, needs a credit. But it’s been around for at least 15 years. Any ideas who invented it? These charts give an idea of the essence of the just-finished tome:
Well, the book is done. Again. It is in its fourth or fifth state of being finished. Carly and Alisa have been instrumental in making suggestions and I cannot thank them enough. Both are amazing readers. Carly suggested breaking the book into two pieces. It was the perfect suggestion. There are now two books of
Someone asked this question about a requirement that she is going to have to do next year in her building: Q. We are going to have to start to have learning targets each day/week and the kids are going to have forms to fill out explaining how they have reached that learning target….I need to figure out
