Webinar
Here's information on my webinar for Teacher's Discovery next week on CI basics. Then, the week after that the webinar topic will be The Big CI Book and after that the Pringle Man Video, which is the first Invisibles character
Rep. Tim Ryan
In tonight's debate, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio said in his closing statement:
New Invisibles Book
This is an update on the new Invisibles book. What I did was combine the two books into one updated 410 page masterpiece, if I do say so myself (I've never said that about any of my other books) -
Anne Matava on Starting the Year – 2
Anne continues here description of how she starts the year: By the time we have gone through every questionnaire, the students have acquired a lot of expressions like has, wants, needs, goes, likes, sees, says, eats, drinks, plays, etc. Now they
Anne Matava on Starting the Year – 1
This post is from 2016. I had asked Anne to describe how she starts the year to get her students ready for her scripts. Here is her response: Hello, all, Thank you for your interest in the story scripts. The most important thing
Commentary on the Classroom Rules
This information is taken from the first of the Invisibles trilogy books, A Natural Approach to Stories (ANATS, 2015), which preceded A Natural Approach to the Year (ANATTY, 2017), which have now led to The Invisibles/The Invisibles Supplements (2019). If the
With Stories
With stories, teaching a language successfully is very difficult, but it reaches most students. Without stories, success is virtually impossible, and reaches only a few bright kids. You have to pick one of these. If you pick the first, you
The Situation in Our Country Today – Rant Warning
The effects of the textbook and worksheet on language instruction in our country has been devastating. ACTFL has allowed it, never jabbing their fingers animatedly in the direction of the research. They should have done that. The result is that
Changing Buildings
Note: I write long posts. Social media experts say not to. But this isn’t social media. These pages represent an in-depth look at our profession on many levels. So I feel no desire to keep my posts short. That said,
On Gesturing
Brett Chonko wrote something about gesturing here a few years ago that is just spot on, in my opinion: I am for the most part convinced in this article to not require my students to gesture next year for a number