Q. If we don’t use stories to help teach grammar, then how will students be able to express themselves without these “tools” to communicate their own thoughts? They only hear us (teachers) speaking Spanish for 80 minutes/day, 5 days/week for a few semesters. How will students know how to compose high level essays for the […]
A lot of us have great ideas, but because we are lower down on the pecking order in the school system, what we really think and do is rarely heard by those around us, above us, in spite of all the pointless meetings. The assumption is that the department chair, the district coordinator, the principal
From TPRS in a Year! – Skill #20: Chants The repetition of chants can burn new language into the kids’ minds better than practically anything else! If you can just get the words into the kids’ bodies via a good gut-based chant, it will, via the repetition, work wonders for retention. In my view, chants are
