Elena is a second year teacher in an urban school in Portland: Ben, have I not told you my mentor story? Well, last year I’m not sure if you know this but I was really, really depressed. I came home from work every day with a mountain of work to do. I was tired and […]
Beniko Mason is a strong proponent of simply telling kids stories in the TL. Tina Hargaden, who spends a lot of time talking shop with Beniko these days, in a comment here yesterday, gives us an excellent description of story listening. This is brand new stuff and belongs as a part of, as Russ Albright
…creativity is a platform for one to express what is inside. For some, it is a personal depiction of their reality, and for many, often times the goal is to share an important message and point of view about the collective reality we all live in. Creativity is a platform for connection. We want to
This was a comment but I wanted to make it into a post: Craig said: …the structure of the system is incompatible with the nature of language learning…. Now we need to really reconsider what we’re talking about. I have been repeatedly called to task for criticizing certain things like novels and testing and target
I don’t know if anyone can relate to what Robin has said below, but I can. It explains my work with stories vs. traditional language teaching, and why I work so hard to promote lightheartedness and fun in the foreign language classroom.
