Ramble
A reprint from 2013: Why would anyone anywhere anytime, let alone we who are innocently trying in the midst of an almost impossible situation (education in our schools at this time), doubt or find fault with anyone else? There is no
Important Question – 2
Actually Craig kind of answered his own question. This is an email from him two days after the question I posted earlier this morning. Here it is: Yesterday I was trying to force this story on my kids cuz I came
Important Question – 1
Please let's give Craig West as many responses as we can to this super important question at this time of year: What do you do if you don't own any novels and you have a class that won't settle down and
Middle School Strategies
Her is a Dropbox link to folders with charts that Diane Neubauer has used with middle schoolers: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pp5qehu691dkmzo/AADML6qwtOH2sxVPBSqG1LpIa?dl=0
vPQA Question
I got this great question on vPQA from Keri Colwell, whose name is now Biron as Colwell was her maiden name. This question needed to be asked:
Teacher of the Month – April 2015 – Michael Coxon
This month's PLC Teacher of the Month is a fountain of courage in confronting anyone about best practices in language education. I find it ironic that in a recent comment here, just a few days ago, he admired Nathaniel's (Teacher
Curriculum Needed
This is from Robert Allen in Hong Kong. Can anyone in the group help? Hi Ben, Do you know if any large schools using TPRS would be willing to share a curriculum document or scheme of work detailing what is taught in
Faux Personalization
We talk about personalization, but do we really know what it is? In spite of knowing how important it is to our overall success with TPRS, do we consciously make efforts to convey our feelings of joy that we are
Compact Read and Discuss
By limiting what we choose to read with our students to only certain paragraphs that have energy and skipping over the rest, we give new meaning to the term “narrow and deep”. When we limit the amount of text we
Tigers
This is a post from 2009, from Carla. It is a great reminder for all of us about what is at the heart of PQA, as many of us are doing nothing but talking to the kids right now, getting them ready to