Unbelievable. We think that we can communicate a language to another person but not really look into their eyes. We teach the class and there is this king of group mind fuck that we don’t have to look at each other and we can still learn the language.
That is impossible. I believe that eyes were meant to look into as well as out of. So our instruction can only work if we look in and see that the child understands or not. If this is not an argument for honestly using jGR as a hammer, then I don’t know what is.
The fact is that someone has to show up as an adult and tell a child who sits in non-communicative fashion in class that she is not performing to standards.
Are we all liars? Are we all that afraid? Now that we have a tool to connect classroom interaction to standards, what are we waiting for?
The eyes tell all in a language class. Grade them fricking accordingly.