Corinne Bourne is a long time member of our community. An interesting fact about Corinne is that she is the master of, to my knowledge, at least four languages. She is in Northern California and has sad news about the effect of the Carr fire on her community. Everyone is encouraged to send in “reports […]
Laura asks: Is it a good idea to assign jobs as permanent actors? Actors are not listed as jobs in ANATTY. I have always just picked someone on the spot, or had the owner of the character be the actor when doing invisibles. This last hasn’t proved so productive sometimes such a student is to
There is a descriptor for one of the other CI Facebook sites – CI/TPRS for French Teachers – that caught my eye yesterday: “We welcome any new or experienced teachers who want to share and improve their CI skills. “There are many ways of providing comprehensible input in the classroom: Total Physical Response (TPR), Teaching
Perhaps the tipping point over to CI has actually been reached. For fifteen years in this space (eleven of them private), I have heard teachers expressing their concerns that CI cannot be fitted into every single curricular/philosophical model being used throughout the entire school building. Their concerns have always been sprinkled with a low grade
Dr. Lynch is going to be vacationing off the Maine coast next week and when I heard that news I mentioned to Julia that two of the best CI teachers – in my opinion – in the entire world are both, by chance, located right about where she will be vacationing. So, no vacation! Only
Sierra Middle School in Colorado Springs is hosting Mike Peto on Friday, September 21, for his “My Perfect Year” workshop. Here is the flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bws3wSSUoXkyYl9XVUkxcjBZTExraVgxVjlOaEJYaURpWUNj/view The workshop is $69 and participants will receive a copy of Mike’s My Perfect Year book.
Cute Idea #8: The Questionnaire This idea was developed many years ago by master teacher Anne Matava. If you learn that Jeff has an interest in cars, during card talk or just talking with him in the hallway, developing that true statement into all kinds of imaginative comprehensible input can greatly strengthen the quality of your
Tina wrote the following on the CI Liftoff page. It is a start in responding to the heavy-handed people in your department who still target grammar on common assessments and other tests. It’s a vigorous way to respond to them, and you may not want to do that, so you should only respond to such
Back in the early 1990s, Dale Crum was one of what I call the Four Pillars of TPRS w/ Joe Neilson, Blaine Ray and a bit later on Susan Gross. In the oddest set of coincidences, I see Dale on his bike around Denver every year or two. Those who in our PLC go back
Old timers here will know that searching the terms “Beginning the Year” as well as “Starting the Year” would bring forth lots of articles from years past that may be germane to our own individual experiences as we get ready to crank up the new academic year. Of course, many of those articles are possibly
Jonathan Marye, commenting here this morning on the Candy – 1 post (Aug. 5th) about how NT is different from collecting big bags of TPRS candy, has shared an image-rich, very tasty meal with us today. Bon appétit tout le monde and thank you for the delicious imagery, Jonathan! – So, in essence, we are
Beth’s second email, dated July 28: I wish that I had come across these new ideas I’m now embracing sooner — yours and Tina’s work, in particular. I talked with one of my wonderful mentor teachers this afternoon, Dr. Kim Pate, and I shared with her how deeply that regret runs. I regret the missed opportunity for my kids who “got” what
