It’s about time that Robert had his own blog site and so this is to announce its launch this week. I will be a regular reader, as many of us will be, since we know very well what the Chevalier de l’Ouest has brought and continues to bring to our careers in the way of leadership and […]
Two of the biggest things that make a story interesting to the kids in a TPRS class are the elements of suspense and surprise. But if the one directing the story, asking the questions, making those split second decisions about where to take things during the creation of the story already knows what is coming,
This post from 2008 is from my book PQA in a Wink! It offers a way to deal with troubled kids that is based in kindness: Mildred is the captain of the girl’s basketball team. She is rough. She had to be rough because she was thrown around physically by her abusive parents in a
Who has oppressed us, who are asleep at the testing barrier? Oh, nobody in particular, except the textbook companies and a legion of freak memorizers-turned-language-teachers who don’t want us to wake up and who now are about to get the wake up call of a lifetime if only we can wake up at the assessment
One might ask right about now, “Who has time to read the recent barrage of articles and comments on authentic assessement? I’m too busy!” I would ask, “Who can risk not reading them?” Why? Because we are sleeping and need to wake up! We just spent, some of us, almost twenty years studying this Krashen and
Diane Neubauer was listening to the Tea with BVP show last week and reported back to us here: …they had done a poll of people following them on Twitter. If I remember correctly, 85% either said “yes” or “yes, but…” to this question: “Do you think we should move to language instruction without tests and grades?”….
