From Jonathan: Ben- Got a few questions to throw out to the PLC, re: FCR (Free Choice Reading): 1) Do you use FCR @ the beginning of class on a daily basis? 2) If so, for how long? (include how long class time is) 3) What are your sources for reading material? 4) What are the […]
It’s interesting to me that some in our group are having success with the Big CI Book and others with ANATS and ANATTY, since they are different, the first one still retaining elements of TPRS/CI and the second ones being fully devoted to NTCI. It doesn’t matter. We work for success however we can find
Should I call what I do NTCI or Proficiency Based Instruction (PBI)? That’s all it is about…proficiency. Or should I call it something else? It’s non-targeted as anyone who has been on here since 2016 knows, but NTCI is just an awkward name to me and also invites the CI people to get oppositional. But
I know that on this site we have beginning of the year parent letters about what we do in our classrooms but it is so full of pages that I can’t find one. If anyone has one that they are willing to share with the group, please cut and paste it into a comment field
Dr. Lynch at Texas A&M wants to do a study with members of this group and we need some participants: “Dear PLC: I am seeing volunteers to fill out a survey regarding your perceptions and experiences using NTCI. The survey will require approximately one hour of your time. Your information will be anonymous. I believe
Hey Ben – Q. We made a OWI; the character was a potato. So all through the first questions I asked, Est-elle grande ou petite, etc., because pomme de terre is feminine. Then when we named it it turned out to be male. So now it’s Ricky, and I find myself switching to il–il est
Q. Hi Ben! I am a second-year Spanish teacher. In graduate school, I studied and trained in TPRS methods with a professor whose pedagogy was centered on comprehensible input in language acquisition. I am lucky to have had her! I admire your work a lot, and I have been experimenting in non-targeted CI this year.
This is from Anne Matava: Hi Ben – In my 2nd and 3rd year classes we have hit on something fun with Card Talk. I had them draw something they did over the summer on their cards. We have started talking about them in two ways. First, we talk about what really happened: the kid
For those doing the newest work (NTCI) this clarification might be helpful: Dear Ben, I recently purchased A Natural Approach to the Year and am giving it a try (and excited to do so). In reading the job descriptions in the HR Manual, it seems that the description for the Secondary Artist is missing. I
Here is the complete original thread, with comments, around the traditional attack on John Bracey. These are the comments that started the discussion on rigor, which we should revisit here as much as we can lest we forget that rigor is one of the most outstanding descriptors of our work with CI and that rigor
Sean I just want to say thank you for your contributions to the group over all the years. I really appreciate your insights because they are always filled with kindness, while your mind is like a beacon scanning a field. We are all better off because you are a member of the PLC.
This and a following post from the intense days here of 2014 will be of interest to any PLC member who is being attacked by high school grammar teachers: John Bracey was attacked by colleagues and we got a thread going about it last month. Among other things, for those who remember the original thread,
