What causes teachers to quit on non-targeted comprehensible input before they even try it? Why do many of them reject it as something they won’t do, sometimes vehemently? After all, NT instruction aligns with the research far more than TPRS does. Perhaps this occurs because many teachers, esp. considering how they were taught themselves, consciously […]
A question for the group from Ben Lev: ..I work in a small, new charter high school and for most of seven years have been the only Spanish teacher, using TPRS/CI and it’s great. The curriculum through the levels focuses on mastery of high freq words, esp verbs, using class stories, novels, Movie Talk etc.
Dana would like some responses on this: …I had my mid-year PLP meeting today and my VP suggested I do an action research paper. I just need to get some ideas on what areas we could use data. Please let me know if you have ideas….
Here is Derek Heckman’s presentation on non-targeted CI at UNO MALT Colloquium, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018: Also a colleague of Derek presented in Nebraska this past weekend, Jamie Demson Honke:
This year the Cascadia conference is happening June 10-June 13, again in Portland, OR. Here is the link: https://cc972.wordpress.com/schedule/
Greg asks: Hi everyone. My school just bought a subscription to a Curriculum Management System called EduPlanet 21. Basically we will have to submit unit plans on there. Has anyone used this platform or had experience with it? I’m afraid of upcoming micromanagement/obstacles to NT…..
From Julia, who is just getting the Invisibles going in her classroom: OK, I assigned jobs and we created our first character. There was A LOT of excitement and talking over each other. I forgot to post the Classroom Rules but I will for next class. The excitement felt good but the chaos didn’t. I
Hello Ben, This is a question for the group. We in the department of FL have to come up with a curriculum 6-12 by the end of February. The French teacher is grammar-book based. I proposed to the coordinator that we have two curriculum one for each language, but she said only one was possible.
Tina sent me this from the new video course she is writing. It is from the first section called “Foundations of CI Instruction” and is a lecture on questioning techniques. She asked me to post it here so she can get feedback and ideas from the group. Here is the text that needs critiquing: I
I just can’t believe how finding the Invisibles is changing my work days. This is my first year as a full time teacher at a private school, and it’s been HARD. I’ve done difficult things before but nothing was as beyond my control and depressing as teaching at this school, for many reasons. Out of
Whenever I knew I was formally going to be observed, I always made sure that I “primed the pump” on the story or whatever I was doing on the day of the observation to make sure that the kids were comfortable (not brand new to) the subject matter for the class. I wanted them not
Schools are deteriorating: https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/bce2c0f5-5c60-3fc9-9e3f-03f984ed65a4/ss_adults-who-went-undercover-at.html
