June 19, 2017

In the following image, the iceberg mass that is breaking off represents the  S/S docs, pacing guides in the world of language instruction. It’s time to deep six them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsAqqHQcJyU

A repost from when I was in India: I’m meeting with my curriculum director, who wants to talk about vertical alignment of foreign languages among the 10 teachers in our K-12 program here at the American Embassy School. If anyone is interested I am sharing what I sent her in preparation for our meeting later

For about the past year and a half, Tina and I have been under a lot of fire – since we started talking about the value of non-targeted input in the TPRS/CI community. We have criticized targeting words from word lists, backwards planning of awkwardly written novels, aligning CI instruction with the teaching of grammar/pacing guides/scope and