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11 thoughts on “Reply to Paul Sandrock”
I am so thankful for you, Ben. Your PLC is free from the egos, the stresses, and the baggage that so many of our educational circles; whether professional organizations, school communities, or casual groups, find themselves awash in. It’s suffocating. But not here. Like I’ve heard others say, not only do I thank you for your leadership in building such a strong community, but my family thanks you. My wife thanks you. I’m a much happier teacher as a result of this blog. As a result, I’m a much happier husband and soon-to-be-father.
Thanks Robert! I hope I get to post as much as Jim and James have been after their newborns recently arrived.
If not, don’t worry!! We will still be here. You can never get back those moments with your family. Everyone there needs you.
with love,
Laurie
Congratulations, Sean!
I accept with bowed head and folded hands your wonderful compliments above, Sean. You know, I was reading your other comment (responding to Eric about something) tonite, this one in italics:
…If we were to make a list of pro CI actions we want ACTFL to make, here are a few:
Get a CI article published, like the Hermanator’s article on MovieTalk, in ACTFL’s Language Educator?
Scrap, or at least refashion the 5 Cs (Communication, Culture, Connections, Comparisons, & Communities)
Get ACTFL to influence the College Board to create better AP exams.
As Eric said, get higher education to wake up.
and it suddenly occurred to me as I was reading those observations that these kinds of things could actually happen. We could actually:
a. publish articles about CI in the more mainstream professional publications.
b. help refashion the archaic and outmoded 5 Cs.
c. get better AP exams from the College Board.
d. get higher education to wake up. (Now that would be a Rip Van Winkly chore!)
I am not advocating that we all join ACTFL, because I think it would take our eye off the ball (look how it has done so over the past few weeks) and we can’t afford that because of the kids. But there was something in your words that really cast the entire thing to me in a different light, like something is possible now, something might happen now, something more than just mere continued isolation from our colleagues across the gorge. I hope that I am expressing that correctly. Something is happening. And I don’t have to know what it is. Thank you again, Sean. To have colleagues like you and the other warriors here makes me think that my career, all those totally crazy ass classes day after day after day after day, indeed did have purpose and again, I don’t have to know what that is.
And Sean congratulations on your newly arrived angel. Wait till he or she is a teenager. Just kidding. No I’m not. Yes I am. Hey, we already know about teenagers, right? Bless your students’ hearts and bless your family and bless you! Heck, just bless everybody these days – we all need it so very much!
My thanks to you are as genuine as a mountain spring. Seriously. 2 years ago, in February, while working under the International Baccalaureate framework, I went into school on a Saturday. I was swimming in work. That Saturday morning I got up to go to the bathroom and my back gave out. I ended up aggravating a bulging disc, had to take 3 days off, and everyday thereafter, my lower back has required constant care. The work was too stressful. It was not sustainable.
So, probably more than anything, I thank you, Ben, for helping take the stress out of teaching.
It amazes me that you all find the time to reflect (and share daily on this blog) with classes to be taught, crazy administrators, grade books, conference presentations, families, friends, dogs, chicken, babies born or on the way. Susie Gross told us in Ixtapa that we’d all be able to get back at playing bridge and gardening. Pas moi (not me).
Lance Piantiggini (Sp?) posted a new thread asking how to reconcile the 80:20 rule, 90% Target Language position and Comprehensible Input. For those, like me, who were unaware of the 80:20 rule, it states that students should do 80% of the talking and the teacher 20% of the talking in a period. I’m really interested in what sort of response he gets.
Here’s the URL:
http://community.actfl.org/communities/viewdiscussions/viewthread/?GroupId=439&MessageKey=ab6f0da0-1ecc-4dad-90f0-09f7a8e246b1
Does ACTFL support the 80:20 rule anywhere else? Looks like Lance is referring to a blog post. That woman’s blog post triggers a gag reflex. ha.
Piantaggini – thanks for correcting the spelling in your thread, Ben.
Lance sounds like another TCI gem. I enjoy his posts on the morelist as well.
Sharp teacher!