Nathaniel Hardt sent this list of our Classroom Rules, but in Spanish, explaining: Hi Ben, With the talk about staying in the target language with classroom stuff (Australia Update), it made me think to share what I have posted for classroom rules. This is on the front, above the whiteboard. There are also the English […]
Robert’s email discussing Scope and Sequence with his district World Languages representative continues: 7. Brain-based research shows that the brain craves and requires two very different experiences. On the one hand, because active memory is limited to +/- 7 items, it is necessary to automate many functions and processes as well as “chunk” them together.
I just had the thought that teachers who are insecure with their abilities in teaching using comprehensible input can drop that thought, because really, if they just provide enough input to their students, those students will learn automatically in spite of any perceived shortcomings in technique or skills on the part of the teacher. No
Robert’s email discussing Scope and Sequence with his district World Languages representative continues: 6. Studies published in various professional journals such as “The Foreign Language Annals” (ACTFL), “Die Unterrichtspraxis” (AATG) and “The Language Educator” indicate that manipulation of the language before any sort of explicit grammar instruction leads to greater gains in fluency and retention
[This is really Look and Discuss made into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with PQA, two twin strategies, but I am calling it a new kind of PQA because it a) targets structures to set up a story, b) asks for the personal opinions of kids about various topics and brings their own lives
Today I observed two middle school classes in a Learning Lab model hosted by Julie Soldner of Merrill Middle School in South Central Denver. (Learning Labs are the trademark strategy of DPS for training teachers new to TPRS and they are far more effective than anything else I personally have ever seen in teacher training
