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:

1. Actual professional fulfillment.
2. Learning to genuinely appreciate how creative and funny your students really are.
3. Having your students police their own classroom because they really want to learn the language you are teaching them.
4. Grading kids in a fair and equitable way that prevents them from feeling excluded by other kids in the classroom.
5. Bringing all of them into a place of genuine self-esteem by how you are teaching them.
6. 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.