Your body/voice are your most important instruments in this work. Learn to play the instrument in the CI orchestra that you’ve been given. This is Performance Skills 101. You have to do CI in a way that reflects the instrument that you have been given. Your instrument is yours and no one else has it. […]
I got this from Alisa today: Sean Lawlor and family just bought the house next-door to mine! He and his wife are teachers; my husband and I are teachers. Can you say summer BBQ? Now that is a good way to work on our mental health in this difficult new field we work in – just
More good news from Chicago! I got this from Alisa today – Sean Lawlor and family just bought the house next-door to mine! He and his wife are teachers; my husband and I are teachers. Can you say summer BBQ? Now that is a good way to work on our mental health in this difficult new
Julia is doing the spring protocol that Tina and I describe in A Natural Approach to the Year. She’s working with the student storybook projects. Here is her report and, below it, the pages pasted in from the book that describe the details of how to do the project. Hi Ben – The kids are
From Greg in Chicago: Hi Ben, I know part of the PLC, being that it is a private community is that we also share pictures and stories of our family, like how Sean recently shared pictures of his children. Here is a picture of me and my fiancée, Rosa Marisol. We got engaged on 4/21
Here is information about Greg’s one day CI training in Chicago this summer: http://tprspunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/chicago-comprehensible-input-training.html
A lot of readers here know about the following great way to spend some fun time with the kids each week, but I republish this article from April of 2009 for anyone for whom it may be a new strategy: For whatever reason, I have avoided kindergarten day all these years. I guess I was
Greg just published a new FCR reader on Teachers Pay Teachers: Las aventuras de Nancy y Rodolfo https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Las-aventuras-de-Nancy-y-Rodolfo-FVR-SSR-e-book-Descubre-3-Chapter-1-3780022 For more products: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Ci-Guy
If they tripled my salary and begged I might consider doing more planning. I may want to plan a little when doing a Movie Talk or something, but not with one of the Invisibles stories. When we work with emergent targets, we are freer to follow a story line that is much more interesting to
Sometimes we just need to get to the end of the year. There is a “Bail Out Moves” category but some of those posts are about TPRS and dated so they all may not be relevant to what we are doing now. But here is one idea that is a good way to eat up
We must avoid interrupting the flow of a story or a reading class with unnecessary digressions and explanations. What seems interesting to me as a language teacher is not interesting to them. They don’t want me to talk about the language. They just want to know what happens in the story or the reading. We
When I need to take a break during a story and re-energize a bit, I sometimes do so in the following way: If, in a story, I use a new word, I of course write it on the board and pause and point to it. I would normally then continue on with the story. However, if I feel
