Don’t Teach Too Much Language
As a language teacher, I like simplicity and therefore I like repetition. Simplicity and repetition help my students remember and allows me to see much greater engagement from them than when I try to teach too much language. When I teach too much language
A Few Links
From time to time, group members send me interesting articles to share with the group. Alisa has sent these two, which you may find time to read during your planning period this week: https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/AE3NJQ https://hbr.org/2019/01/data-was-supposed-to-fix-the-u-s-education-system-heres-why-it-hasnt
A Breakthrough
I've actually never read a comment like the one reproduced below, and the reason that that is a big deal to me is that over the past 15 years here there have been over 70,000 comments, so this is a
Big White Bird
I'm beginning to see more and more that one of the biggest enemies we face in this work are the very schools in which we do the work. The CI birds wings are just too massive for too many of
Posting Daily Objectives – 2
Below is an example of what Carly does with the rather useless and clumsy daily objectives requirement that is another way admins have of keeping control over us. In her school, she is required to write them in a specific
Posting Daily Objectives – 1
Q. We are going to have to start to have learning targets each day/week and the kids are going to have forms to fill out explaining how they have reached that learning target. I need to figure out how to handle that with
Speech and Writing Output Can’t Be Taught – They Just Emerge
I got this email question with my response below: Q. [On the topic of creating a CI based curriculum]
Classroom Management
It took us 15 years here, but in the past year we have finally articulated our major concern in this work. It is our mental health, which in turn is influenced of course by how we teach and how we
More on Curriculum
Krashen and Lev Vygotsky fifty years before him have shown that the concept of being a valued member of a community (which leads to feelings in the language learner of self-worth and confidence) play major roles in language acquisition. So before
Curriculum Question
Warning: this is kind of a long rant - if you read the contents of the link as well. Just more grist for the mill: We have had, over all the years, many questions about curriculum. The ones we've developed