«On ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.»
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petit Prince
Zitate des Monats
Interaktion
TPRS doesn’t work because we are great storytellers, but because stories create a rich forum for interaction between teacher and student that wonderfully facilitates the learning process.
Stephen on www.benslavic.com/blog, 6. Juni 2010
Die Kinder erreichen
We won’t change education by measuring it more. We will change it by reaching kids.
Ben Slavic on www.benslavic.com/blog, 5. Juni 2010
Entscheidend ist unsere Haltung
What goes on in a typical classroom reflects the mental stance of the teacher. If the teacher is uptight, the classroom will be uptight. If the teacher is spontaneous, the classroom will be spontaneous. If the class is heavily planned with all sorts of fragmented/eclectic activities, the classroom will reflect that in the form of confused students.
What is most important? The teacher’s demeanor. If the teacher is happy, the students will learn. This is a heavy responsibility. And what makes a teacher happy?
We must remember why we are in the classroom. We are in there to work with kids and help them on their road through life. We are here to make the language accessible to them, by making it relevant to them.
Ben Slavic on www.benslavic.com/blog, 4. Juni 2010
Steigt herunter von eurem Baum ...
Who are the real experts in language? They are my students. I accept them where they are and we all work together to get them better and we keep it fun. Hopefully, there are other teachers in the world who don’t see their jobs as their being the experts and their kids jumping, jumping to reach the cherries on the tree that the teacher has already climbed. That’s so old. The real teachers jump down from the tree and grab a branch and pull it down so that the kids can reach the fruit. Ben Slavic on www.benslavic.com/blog, 4. Juni 2010
Zwang und der Wille zum Lernen
...we all have known for some time in education that force accomplishes almost nothing in terms of true learning, and that the will to learn and especially the will to play must be there. Ben Slavic on www.benslavic.com/blog, 3. Juni 2010
Sprache und Poesie
John Keats, in his Letter to John Taylor, 27th Febrary 1818, stated: …if Poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all…. This line expresses how I feel about language learning. What we do in instructing our students should not be a primarily conscious thing, no more than a tree can consciously push out leaves, or a fetus become a baby by the conscious effort of the mother, no more than the stars can align themselves by sheer effort of will. Ben Slavic on www.benslavic.com/blog, 7. Mai 2010
Erzwungener Output
Forced output beyond the level of acquisition is making students “practice” what they don’t really know yet. But language doesn’t work that way. Language is acquired.
Forced output means making students to use what they are still subconsciously trying to figure out how to use; forced output is the nurse demanding that you pee in a cup.
Bryce Hedstrom on www.benslavic.com/blog, 30. April 2010