Last week there was a discussion about DO NOW over on the forum. I asked Annick Chen if she would share what she puts on her smart board at the beginning of each of her classes and she agreed: Annick Chen’s Ideas of DO NOW & EXIT TICKETS (1)
Here is an update from Bob on his adjunct work at the University of Georgia: The department just asked me yesterday if I would consider teaching this spring (they asked about summer two weeks ago). The World Language and Literature Dep’t. folks are just very, very positive and supportive about this work. My intention, if
I think that it is fairly accurate to say that we haven’t seen any full blown classes in CI taught at the university level, ever. Krashen gets mentioned, of course, but it is always in a way that does not convey the true power of his five hypotheses in bringing fluency, as if he is
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I have gotten better at staying in the target language because of the Ten Minute Deal. I have only been doing it for a few weeks, but I am getting some really strong ten minute periods in the TL with only a few short four second clarifications. I can do comprehensible input in the TL
Chris said this in talking about a thread started by Eric Herman about the use of L1 in the classroom: …I’ll just randomly say funny, weird, random things in English which then turn into 1-2 minute random rants or conversations in English that I then have to get away from and get back into Spanish
James Hosler has agreed to moderate the forum which is clearly going to need moderation. Also I asked Trevor to add a Successes page to the forum, a great idea this morning from Carly. We need both! Thank you James and Carly!
