A good friend of mine who is a visual artist, musician, theologian, among other things, sent me the link to this TEDx Talk by Victor Wooten, a five-time Grammy Award winning professional musician known for innovating, composing, and teaching with
First We Learn to Listen
A flood of input must precede a trickle of output. This is one of the principles of Teaching with Comprehensible Input. The use of must is one definite in a subject full of ambiguities. I refer to it as the
Planning #Desklessclassroom Year 2 – Making Seating Matter
Last summer, June 2014, after the students had finished and gone home, I had one work day in my classroom to finish grades, clean my room, etc. etc. But when I turned the key that morning, I knew the first thing
TCI is Equity
I wrote this a couple years ago on Ben Slavic’s blog and it was blogged by Jody Noble here. Here it is again, with a few minor edits. Changes are coming in our local language instruction ecosystems. Administrators who are