January 26, 2018

For those looking for some curriculum docs that match up with elementary CI, we have these from Alisa: Elementary Spanish grades 1-4: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K9iU1fxXePbdFFSehT4wSn6TnaDAKK0W0ZW_JL2H6Sc/edit?usp=sharing Spanish Grades 5-6: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GHq68aUbDAI1JaMhNaBBYSbpV2LzVKAg_wukNDn__0E/edit?usp=sharing Spanish grade 7: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oHuxXjikm1mQk0hdCFTf85vvoaFbWqcqaQI0eBvtKwU/edit?usp=sharing Spanish Grade 8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FGEqvu5tQcmcMsY2Q2QiJfmOYAIW3F79Q7t4OcboiO8/edit?usp=sharing

Lisa asks: Hola Ben, I’m really interested in TPRS and CI. I teach PreK-3rd grade. I see my children 2/week. The wee ones for 30 mins, the older ones for 45. I’m not a traditional methods teacher w/pen and paper or a text book. I make up my own curriculum and roll with it. We

If you look at this video of our Alisa teaching her very young kids, I suggest you turn off the sound: What do you notice? I notice that Alisa encourages, as much as possible, freedom of physical movement by the kids. The kids need to move at that age, and she allows that, without “losing”

When you have visitors, you may want to consider having the kids go around and explain their jobs to your guests, esp. the key jobs: videographer, professeur 2, artists, storywriter, story driver They will describe what they do in class with obvious pride, like someone explaining to a visiting dignitary what they do in a