Michele Whaley
Michele here offers some general clarification to the recent discussion: Hi Ben, Kids writing stories: kids get two minutes to write story ideas using required structures on tiny pieces of paper in English or TL and turn them in. Embedded readings: teacher types
Three Week Backwards Design Plan
Week 1: 1. Monday (next week not tomorrow because we have state testing this week) - I isolate the big structures from Françoise Hardy's Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles - that song is my end goal. I PQA those structures.
TPRS Graduate Course Offering
Here is a graduate TPRS course offering coming up in South Carolina: TPRS Graduate Course (for teachers who would like to use TPRS with students of all ages and levels) Instructor: Elizabeth Hughes Location: Columbia, South Carolina Dates: June 14 – 17, June 21
Chill
Carol sent this with my comments back in italics: Following all of the information on this thread is like trying to corral the mercury from the broken thermometer that's scattered on the bathroom floor! We all have such varying backgrounds with this stuff.
Maine Workshop
We had been getting all geeked up about a possible early summer Maine thing with Jody and Laurie and Jim and Matava and Skip, but lots of them all have school well into June, when the window closes for a
Storytelling
Stephen sent this. It is definitely very cool: Ben, I watched this video today on fora.tv about storytelling. I thought it was interesting what Penguin Digital Publisher Jeremy Ettinghousen had to say about the future of stories. He talked about the
Di Boni!
The blogs from y'all are stacking up in the queue and I apologize for that, but I have also been asked to limit the quantity of content here since it is a lot to read on a daily basis what
Error Correction's Futility
This just in from Bryce: So why don't we spend more time correcting the errors in our students' speech and writing? Isn't that what teachers are supposed to do? Isn't that their job? Well
Cranking CI
It is hard to stay up with all the great ideas from Michele and Laurie and others. We are all each other's teachers. Michele, in particular, seems to be able to incorporate so many ideas into what she does in a
High Frequency Structures Input Needed – Elementary TPRS
I don't know how to answer this but maybe somebody else does: Hi, Ben! I am writing to ask for input about my district's Elementary World Language HF Structure list. In trying to edit it, we are asking ourselves which HF Structures should