Another report from a teacher who is new to comprehension based instruction, Inger Moran: For the past three years, I have been teaching French, usually split between two or three schools while attending graduate courses at night to finish my M.Ed.. I’ve struggled with using the textbook series and my own style. I never could […]
Even if you don’t teach Latin, watch this from David: Hi everyone, I’m sure you all are busy, but if anyone has time to take a look, here’s a private video of a retell of a story and making of a second location. I wrote this script and it was a fun one that I
I got some questions from a group member who starts an evening adult class this week. Thought I’d share my responses. For those unfamiliar with some of the terms used in the discussion below, please go to the regular site here and click on resources/workshop handouts. Q. Do you think starting with cards on day
This is a very important phase we are in. We are doing breakaway stuff with the new YouTube awareness, of just how truly powerful YouTube is in bringing high quality comprehensible input to our students. Is there anything better, anything more compelling, than the YouTube clips for our kids? Stories – except those rare home run stories –
My web guy tells me that the forum should be up and running by the weekend. This new feature will greatly increase the speed of responses to questions. Sometimes after a class you just have to go somewhere and say it before the next class comes in. Group members also won’t have to look laboriously
If you go over the date to start your classes, say the date or season or month wrong. Tell them it’s the 36th of May when it’s the 26th of August. Bend their minds a little. When your students hear you say it is the 36th of the wrong month, their brains kick in to a higher
Q. I can’t get them to come up with cute answers and it is frustrating just standing there in front of them not knowing what to do asking questions. A. Well, first are you staying in bounds and making yourself comprehensible? Are you going slowly enough so that they all fully understand. Are you repeating
