January 7, 2010

Playing Tennis

I was conversing in French with a student after school today. As a French 4 student soon going to France on a trip, she was concerned because she said that she had, up until this year, rarely heard the language in any of her classes up. A natural language talent (upper 1%), she seemed to […]

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Response To Toni

Toni you said: “I am terrible at personalizing – but I think that it’s probably because I always have an agenda.” Toni that is one powerful statement. It’s a game-changer. You also said: “With all the talk on this blog of ‘letting go’ of our old teacher selves, this post seems to be giving me

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Getting Them To Learn

I wrote a comment today to Toni but wanted to put it, and another one, here in blog form so they can be referenced later instead of being scrolled out: A thought that I am releasing these days is that I have to get my students to learn. With my Krashen-based approach, my students learn

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