The culture of relying on books and computer programs to teach a foreign language, which is a crazy thing indeed if you truly get what CI really is, cannot possibly succeed. It involves such a shallow and wide instructional dynamic. Too few repetitions on too many words are involved in that kind of instruction. When we work with
I just wanted to share what I did one day last week. I put up an image of a city by a river (projected through the LCD from boston.com the big picture) and talked about it with my level 2 classes. It felt really good to reinforce words that I thought they knew from level
Dear Ben, My name is Hayne Painter and I’m a Spanish Teacher at Pinewood Preparatory School in Summerville, SC. I wanted to thank you for being a guide and mentor to me as I discover TPRS. My story is somewhat similar to others. I have been teaching for 13 years. I have always been looking
So I teach preschool through Spanish 3 at a small Christian charter school. This is my first year using TPRS and this is my 3rd year teaching. I have the elementary and middle school only once a week. My problem has been the Jr. high and mostly the 7th grade. I have certain students in
