Ruth and I are working to get a Google folder up for whatever PP slides we create here. Sharing our lesson plans here, as we have said, could save us many planning hours next year once we get this thing on Visual PQA/Power Point CI teaching up and running. I strongly suggest that we scaffold
This can happen in impoverished schools as well as any other as long as we tap into the needs of the children to express themselves using words in the L2. We didn’t have a way to do this in the old model of PQA because the input was not supported by images and captions. And
To restate and clarify. In my current view we will get much more verbal L2 output from our kids than we ever thought possible if we do three things: 1. Put really extreme limits on how much L1 they can use. 2. Use Power Point images with captions (stories can’t do this) so that they
Q. Does Julie ever ask, “What did I just say?” or do quick translations for clarification? A. Yes, BUT both are very limited in how many times they get used. This is the fascinating part to me. The less English used by the teacher, I have noticed in DPS, the more L2 output by the kids there
Here are the Star of the Week questions in French that Sabrina is currently using. I could only get permission to use them in French, but all you need to do is some quick translation work to have them in other languages. Thanks to Sabrina for allowing us to use these questions: Star of the
Throughout the week the teacher can share with the class a Power Point presentation of the child with his or her photo taken when the student came up to be the star. On each slide is the photo of the student, along with the question, as well as a picture of what the questions represents.
This is from Angie and Angie I apologize I should have posted this early with only one week left in the window: There is a full-time job opening for a French teacher here in Brattleboro, VT. The position is for all levels of French and the candidate needs a masters degree so they can teach
