August 19, 2011

…why do we think that if a child puts X amount of time in a seat, he or she will learn X amount of material…?

Today I mustered up my courage to tell Annick Chen, our gifted superstar TPRS teacher of Mandarin at Abraham Lincoln High School, that I am done with the composition books. It suddenly hit me how useless they are, really. They are one of those vestiges of the past. Annick didn’t bat an eyelash. She said she completely

I have a bunch of quotes from over the years that I never could get myself to throw away. I don’t even know where they came from now. So apologies for not citing the author – some of them sound just like Krashen. They are still worth reading. Here’s the first one, and if you

Got this from Drew: Hi Ben, I think I remember hearing that there was a document for peer coaching (checklist or evaluation). Do you know what I’m talking about or have I mixed up my forums? I have a teacher at my school who wants to do TPRS. She is already starting and we talked