New CI Trainings Available
Ben Slavic, author of the Big CI Book, is offering continuing online CI trainings for the fall:
WHAT: Zoom trainings on starting the new academic year in your middle or high school language classroom.
Session 4: Square Book and Star Book 1
August 2 – August 30, 2025; Five Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time – OPEN
Session 5: Square Book and Star Book 1
September 6 – October 4, 2025; Five Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time – OPEN
Session 6: Square Book and Star Book 1: October 11 – November 8, 2025; Five Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time – OPEN
MATERIALS: Star Books 1, Square Book, Poster Support Scripts
COST: $159. All books are included.
SPACE: Limited to 9 participants per session.
SECURE YOUR SPOT: benslavic@yahoo.com. First come, first served.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES: No planning, effortless and fair grading, larger enrollments, happier students and parents, and instruction that aligns with the research. This 10-hour training can reinvigorate and transform your career with proven activities that actually work to reach language students.
MIKE PETO SAYS: “I’m incorporating the Star into my routine. You don’t need to hear this from me, but you’re among the best, ever. Teachers of a certain generation know this. I really hope some of the younger teachers experience what you have to communicate. During my last workshop, in Virginia, I was in the middle of the OWI part of the session and an older, grumpy-looking teacher mumbled to himself: “This is good teaching!”.
VISIT: https://www.benslavic.com/testimonials/
DONATE: To donate a training ($159), contact benslavic@yahoo.com or 303-995-0526.
BEN COMMENTS: “This training is for teachers who not only want to make CI work for them mechanically, but on many other deeper levels as well:
- Actual professional fulfillment.
- Learning to genuinely appreciate how creative and funny your students really are.
- Having your students police their own classroom because they really want to learn the language you are teaching them.
- Grading kids in a fair and equitable way that prevents them from feeling excluded by other kids in the classroom.
- Bringing all of them into a place of genuine self-esteem by how you are teaching them.
- Just being happy about your job and not allowing it to take over your life. That is to say, not allowing your job to become a daily, pressure-filled burdensome experience that makes you want to quit the profession. In short, not taking teaching too seriously. You know what I mean.
YADIRA P. IN GERMANY COMMENTS: “Last week we worked with OWIs. My students were very happy with the activity and I was too. I was happy because it was really funny for all of us.”
“Only heroes leave the safety of the mind in language teaching.