This past weekend on the forum Megan asked about essential questions that she had to provide her administrators with. I made these suggestions: 1. Can I understand (name of language you teach) by listening to it? 2. Do I need to read something to learn (the language you teach)? – on this one it would […]
Here is Carly’s bio and thank you Carly: Hi! My name is and I am a middle school French teacher at IS383 in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I learned about TPRS from a presentation at a workshop I went to last spring. After an hour with the presenter I read a whole story and answered ten questions
Here is Lauren’s bio: My name is Lauren Falken and I am in Dr. Patrick’s class. I am a high school Spanish teacher currently teaching Spanish I and II. I am also pursuing a Master’s in TESOL and Foreign Language Education. I am a member of this blog to learn more about comprehensible input and
From Bob Patrick: I want to share what I did with Latin 1 students last week, combing several CI approaches, and it was a very easy lesson. Part of why it was a very easy lesson is because I have been doing this long enough now to begin to relax into it and let it
Here is Shirley’s bio: I am a volunteer language teacher at two schools run by my church in Central California. I teach Spanish to fifth through tenth graders, trying to make the most of the three half hour sessions that each group has each week. All of my classes are multi-level with two grade levels
Here is a bio from Kelly: I teach Spanish 1 & 2 at Joliet West High School in Joliet, IL. I have been teaching with TPRS/CI for around 10 years now. A colleague of mine stumbled across a Blaine Ray Workshop, was instantly converted, and immediately began teaching with TPRS. He began sharing the wonderful
Inger Moran Here is Inger’s bio: My name is Inger (pronounced a bit like Inga) Moran and I am a French teacher in Arlington Public Schools in Arlington, VA. This year I am teaching level 1 French at two middle schools. During my first three years of teaching, I completed my licensure course work and
It is in our shared successes that we can find the strength to keep on keeping on. Jeffery, no stranger to the muck and mire of transitioning to comprehensible input based instruction, recently sent us an excellent report: Today, in my Latin I class. I was working on creating a fictional family. We had a mother and
