This is what I am working for, the feeling here, the feeling in this voice, the feeling that we can find in language and have in our classrooms, moving closer and closer to the Pure Land with each new story, if we look for it, if we keep trying. What is language, after all, than […]
We never talk about the distant future here. It’s always some issue we hack through with our mental machetes. But we will keep hacking away, clearing out the brush. Guess what will happen one day? We will see the sky and it won’t be what we have been used to. It will be what we
If most of those who read here are like me, this work is a real meditation. I wish it wasn’t, but it is. Right? It’s like we teach and so we think about our teaching. Way too much for me. Esp. when I wake up. I just want to wake up regular, but I wake
Here is a post that I wrote in the past few days, after reading something Tina wrote and then talking with her for an hour about it. But it was written from anger and so doesn’t fit into the goals we are identifying for the PLC for the coming year. So if anyone sees me posting
Jim Tripp is on a roll. This is such good stuff and we all need to know it: http://www.trippsscripts.com/single-post/2017/06/05/Vocabulary-Timelines-Are-Arbitrary-And-In-General-Unnecessary
A repost: Here are 30 points about teaching using comprehensible input. Most were taken from points made over the years by Robert Harrell and now located in various articles in the Primers section of this site (hard link above): We emphasize the gradual acquisition of language that follows a different timeline for each individual learner. We
http://www.trippsscripts.com/single-post/2017/06/05/No-Prep-Final-Exam-For-Non-Targeted-Classroom
I tend to want to bash well-intentioned people who are dragging the movement down. Along with the mental health piece and the non-targeted piece, avoiding doing this is, in my view, a kind of third wheel on the tricycle that we might ride into the 2017-2018 academic year here on the PLC. I am competitive in
Besides the mental health theme, which is moving now into its third year here on the PLC, what other themes have risen to the top of the heap? Which ones remain in our group consciousness enough that we might want to keep them in our minds as we transition now into a period of rest
I am opposed to assessment of speech – ever. We wait until it happens and then, when it happens, why assess what they say when we can just enjoy it? Why assess when the goal of the class is to teach them the language so that they can profit from knowing it in a million
The most troubling times for me as the moderator of this site have been when I have felt that I had to kick people off the PLC because they were trying, I am sure without knowing it, to inflict a certain single position on the rest of us that threw our general discussions out of
Over our ten years of sharing ideas together here, we have gone through many changes. We have argued, gnashed our teeth, celebrated accomplishments, complained, talked each other off the ledge, etc. We have changed and grown, without even really noticing it, as one watches a child grow into an adult without really noticing the extent
