Out of Delhi
I'll be out of Delhi without a computer until Wednesday of next week. You can read around in the archives. (Some of the best posts
Parent Letter/Native Speaker
Of course this would have to be tweaked but may help someone at some point. It is written to a parent of a native speaker child
Off The Chart in India
Location NowCast AQI PM2.5(ug/m3) Date US Embassy New Delhi 502 502.7 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Hyderabad 157 66.2 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Chennai 105 37.0 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Kolkata 198 146.7 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST US Consulate Mumbai 170 91.8 2016-01-26 12:00:00 IST Anyone who knows
Forum Down?
I got an email saying that the Forum is down. Can a few people check on that and let me know in a comment field
Aretha Franklin
We can all teach like Aretha sings. My colleague here at the American Embassy School, Anna Citrino, wrote about that idea on her blog. Check
The Mind Gets Confused
When we mix L1 with L2 in class, their minds don't know which one to try to understand. They get confused. But when we stay
TPRS On Steroids
Stories + Invisibles = TPRS On Steroids The above formula is true at least for me, and for my own students. They just literally mobbed me
Safety in the Story
We get scared when we are flying by the seat of our pants in the asking of a story. But that is where the greatest
Value of Coaching Emotions and Speech from Actors
Today I saw the value of dialogues and focusing on actors during stories, especially during recyclings of the story. If we ask an actor how
My Knees Almost Buckled Under Me
Not everyone understands that we don't use word walls in order to teach those certain words that appear in that list. We use them as