Scott Benedict

Scott Benedict

Less is More — Creating Curriculum Around the Sweet 16

Building a curriculum around just 16 simple verbs can transform your students' proficiency levels and have them communicating like never before.

If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?

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Comprehensible Input: The Top 5 Mistakes You're Most Likely Making

In this video, I talk about the top 5 comprehensible input mistakes you're most likely making in your CI classroom!

Kindergarten Day - A Fun Way to Share Reading with Students

Kindergarten Day is an idea from Susie Gross and it’s where the teacher reads a children’s picture book out loud to their students just like teachers do in elementary school.

My Top 10, Go-To Brain Breaks

Brain Breaks are short cognitive breaks during a lesson to give students a short break from instruction so that they can easily refocus back on the lesson. In this video, I’ll be talking about my top 10, go-to brain breaks I use in my classroom.

What is the worst thing that has happened to you while in the middle of teaching?

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