Sauk Language Revitalization 2
In this second blog entry about Sauk language revitalization, I want to talk about the master apprentice to the four elders. His name is Jacob. He has 85% of Sauk language. There are three others with him doing this work
Sauk Language Revitalization 1
It was more like ten or even more tribes down there these past two days at the Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Tribes Native Language Summit in Durant, Oklahoma. It wasn't life changing but it was up there. It may become
Mark Ellinghaus
Mark is another Iowan, like Jim: Hi Ben, I currently teach adult ESL classes at a community college in Iowa. I am currently experimenting with a number of comprehension based techniques though I have used TPRS exclusively while teaching English in the past in Guatemala. I
Simplicity 2
Here are some things that we have to deal with in our classrooms: - being observed by unqualified people - differentiating instruction when doing so is not a practical option in a CI classroom, especially at the lower levels - kids cheating - heads down -
LanguageTeaching Professionals in Denial
This is a repost from December. The link is from Skip. A close read of the article reveals serious flaws in many teachers' own opinions of what they are actually accomplishing and whom they are serving in their positions as language
Summative Assement/Drew Hiben
Drew also had some new ideas for summative testing with CI. This posted here last December. Drew explains: I am thinking out loud here how I could incorporate Drew's recent description to jen of how he evaluates his level two students on the semester
L’Histoire de Bubahkameier
We did some filming of an Anne Matava story called "Lazy" (Story Scripts Vol. 2). The structures were travaille/works le patron crie/the boss yells paresseux/lazy but since we had an entire extra second day block to film (we decided to try to get as much footage of the story
Nathan Black on Homework
Nathan sent both a link to his thoughts on homework and an update on those thoughts as well. This will help Lori and everyone following the New Tech thread here this weekend. Then, hopefully, when we identify links to Jim's
Lori Fiechter
We welcome Lori to this group. Indiana has been for some time an active state with comprehensible input: I currently teach at Crestview Middle School in Huntington County, Indiana (the entire school corporation is TPRS-based). I'm not sure yet if I will still
Yea!
This is just some random self indulgent middle of the night reflecting on things, probably not very interesting except to me: The subscription blog has been up for almost three weeks now and I like it. I like the feeling of privacy,