On Aligning ELA Instruction with Krashen
This is a repost from 2014. I ask the language community: "Who is going to orchestrate the obvious changes needed in ELA to get them up to speed with the research?" Someone has to do that. The chasm between WL
Let’s Learn Something New!
We as teachers are generally strong people physically and mentally. We have to be - just because of the nature of the job. So let's just stay strong mentally and physically during this crisis! Good things can come from this. Indeed,
Update from Ryann
As many know, our long time group member Ryann Campbell was caught by the coronavirus about two weeks ago in the Washington hot zone. Here is her report as of today: "I got a bit worse, and had to go to
Invisibles 3 (p. 8)
Here is the third installment of the new Invisibles book: A Spatial Curriculum Let’s expand on the idea that we learn languages by focusing on the message only. In the past, language instruction has largely involved isolating parts of language in
Invisibles 2 (p. 7)
Here is the second installment of the new Invisibles book: Introduction We want to free comprehensible input (CI) as a pedagogy from its current cage. In order to do that, we must begin with a renewed look at the concept of what
Invisibles 1 (p. 6)
I would share the Table of Contents here but it doesn't format very well when pasted from the actual text - it's a whopper of a table of contents and reveals a collection of every single good TPRS/CI idea I've
Online Lessons
Got this from Jake: Hi Ben,I'm curious about ideas you or any other teachers on the PLC may have for long-term online activities as whole states are shutting down schools. This doesn't affect me yet, but we've been told by our
New 65% Rubric
Here is the newest version of the Interpersonal Skills Rubric. It has been known and used as "jGR" for the past ten years and used by thousands of teachers who have been working out of the Big CI Book. It
Hafiz
A repost from a few years ago: We just can't afford to be bored in our life's work. It's terrible to go to a job every day that we don't enjoy. We must find a way to make it fun. We
Vocabulary is Learned in Context
Dana Miller-Kitch is the Canadian CI teacher who replaced me at the American Embassy School in the fall of 2016 in New Delhi, India. She had trained up over that summer on the Invisibles since she knew that she would