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Video Note

A colleague wrote to me and said this: …I am no longer so intimidated at the thought of sending in videos. I am starting to see them as virtual observations, like if we all taught

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Another Point About Worksheets

Worksheets are not only useless in WL education, they also waste a lot of paper. Guess what? This year I have used virtually no paper in teaching my kids French. They have their composition books

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Message About My Workshops

Those planning on coming to one of my regional trainings (so far Portland is confirmed for mid-August) are reminded that they get all my ebooks at no charge plus free lifetime membership to this blog

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Let’s Talk About SLOW. Again.

We can’t talk about SLOW enough. A few teachers here have actually mentioned in various threads something to the effect that SLOW is relative. What does that mean? I believe that we are becoming so

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Kathryn’s Blog

Kathryn Kuypers is one of our young rock star DPS teachers (of Spanish) whose scores in only her first few years of teaching using TPRS (under the guidance of Diana Noonan) were off the chart. So

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Robert Harrell – 2

Robert continues: The period after the eighth graders left, two teachers came and observed my class. One is a BTSA teacher (i.e. new to the teaching profession and the district, so in training), and the

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Promote Your Program, Harrell Style

I got this report from Robert. It describes how yesterday he pitched his German program to eighth graders. Ironically, in a few hours we will do the same here in our program at the American Embassy

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