For those interested, in San Diego at iFLT (July 9 – 12), I will be doing the morning sessions with real high school students from the San Diego area, but I have asked Carol for the chance to work with any of this group in the afternoons on everything we’ve been talking about all year. I just got confirmation today that Carol has approved the following three day afternoon sessions as written:
Coaching with Ben Slavic
Ben will model certain TCI skills and then invite anyone to “grab the mic” and be coached. This is not a presentation as much as it is just one big coaching session on PQA, Stories, Circling with Balls, One Word Images, the Word Chunk Team Game, and other things useful for starting the school year.
Skills addressed will be Staying in Bounds, Group Choral Answers, Slow, Point and Pause, and Auditory Focus. Ways of blending the discipline piece in with instruction will also be discussed.
Group is limited to the same group of 30 people for all three days for the three hour afternoon sessions, but the doors will be open if people want to wander in and out as observors only.
Carol told me to remind you that if you want to be sure to be included in the working group of 30, include a note with your registration that you want to be specifically in those sessions.