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Angela Pidgeon
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…writing their names on a piece of cardstock and drawing a symbol for the main character from something they read over the summer or their favorite book. We circle and learn character analysis, but more importantly, I build those relationships and show them they matter!….
I think it wonderful that you are applying this to getting to know your kids even in an English class. And then circling even when it’s not a foreign language. It seems so intuitively right on as a way to start off a year. Doing circling with kids in a Socratic fashion when they are not fully practiced in classroom discussion (because they have been trained by the current crop of teachers to take tests) is a wonderful idea. It primes them to wire up their higher order wiring in the kind of setting you describe.
Honestly, at least in the Denver area, there is a palpable DIS-interest by ESL teachers in Krashen. When he came to my classroom in February, the entire department in our building, knowing full well he would be there, didn’t show up. Only two ESL people from the entire district showed up for those classes, and they were jockeying for position for promotion at the district level, so our entire experience that day with Dr. Krashen was with World Language teachers only. Even during the year, with our entire WL department being full-on CI/TPRS, they never visited. I was talking to the ESL department chair once and the affective filter on her was off the chart. Oops, starting to ramble.
Anyway, welcome Angela!
Yes I would like to add… my friend is just starting next week teaching English as a second language for a language school in Melbourne… it sounds a bit shambolic with no processes and a clientele of young Portuguese and Italian adults. So she’s been a bit worried about class discipline. I told her about Ben’s name card thing and circling because I think it’s a great way to start off on the right foot. We’ll see how it goes for her – she is sounding a lot more confident now with having an approach. I wish I had known about this last year when I was teaching a class of rich 15 year olds from a convent school in Guadalajara Mexico…