This report from Bob was written mid-week last week. I should post reports from the field sooner, I think, so that they are more current. I can just bump them up in the queue. My experience here mid-week seems to be a good place and set of circumstances to report simply because I would be […]
Notice the war comparisons. Not an accident. We are in a war. We are being wounded. We get most wounded when there is a combination of philosophical attack from within the department (in my case 8 of 10 of were against me), and administrative attack from the top when they find out (wrongly) from the department that there is
Robert wrote in a recent comment about DLI: …[At DLI] if someone misses more than two or three days of class, they are dismissed from the program (I know of people who missed because of illness; that doesn’t matter, they missed and therefore were dismissed.)…. While reading those words I suddenly, in proustian fashion (I just wanted to
A gem of a field report from Kevin: Hello all. I’ve just rounded out week 3 of the year, and have to extend a big thanks to all those who have posted/commented here. I’ve gleaned so much already in just a few weeks time, and I know that its helping me each and every class
MB sent this: My principal just sent a database of lesson plans from the federal govt. I looked up “language arts”, delved deeper, and found this site: “How People Learn Languages”. I am not done reading and digging, but it seems interesting for CI based instruction: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/learn.jsp
