What are people doing for bathroom policies this year? Mine has always been they can’t go in the first or last 10′ of class, since they should be going during the break, unless of course it’s an emergency. During the middle part of class, they can slide out quietly, but only two can go (emergencies […]
Laura Avila shares and the group is invited to comment: The words I have on the walls in my Spanish classroom are all high up and are pronouns, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. No verbs, no nouns. I have these mainly because they are used a lot and I don’t feel like having to write them
This is from Elena Overvold in Portland: Hi Ben, Tina created this schedule for the first few days of class for people on a block schedule (90 min. periods). I’m planning to give this a whirl next week when the students come back. Days 1 & 2: 1.Students make name cards on card stock–> Include
Steven writes: Well, I am totally cooking with CI here. I just finished my day 4 of teaching with OWI and CWB. Just out of curiosity I asked if anyone wanted to retell our OWI. It was a small golden piano inside the mouth of an alligator along with one of my student’s brothers. Well
As more of us start working with the Invisibles and experimenting with storytelling using emergent language based on visual images created by the class (through a One Word Image or an image from an individual in class), let’s create a way to share images and stories of the characters that emerge. The quality of the
I am currently in a workshop in Portland, OR, working on beginning the year strategies, and we are discussing better ways to build a word wall. This is in keeping with my new focus on using emergent language, and allowing the kids to drive the content and pacing of what happens in our classrooms. One
I am writing you to tell you of my presentation to foreign language teachers in my district yesterday where I am the only TPRSer. They gave me 50 minutes, and all were Spanish speakers except one Mandarin teacher. So she came up front, and I taught her while everyone watched (and participated globally). I had
Here are PDFs of Spanish and French word walls that Tina made, based on the documents in the Resources tab on the front page of the site. Word Wall Français Word Wall Español Word Wall English Here are the Word documents in case you want to modify them: Word Wall Eapañol Word Wall Français Word
This is for French teachers. “Est-ce que” means “is it that” in French. Just now in our SF workshop (we are in day 2 today) Erik Olsen, who is demonstrating how to use a Matava story script for our group here in Moraga, CA, when teaching “est-ce que”, told the group that “est-ce que” means that
I’ll be on the road so not blogging the next two weeks. My suggestion is that readers who are getting ready to go into the classroom right now watch some of our videos (“resources” hard link above) and also go into the Beginning of the Year or Starting the Year categories. Readers can also read
This post is for people attending my three day intensive workshops. It is to save them the trouble of having to take photos of the posters on the walls. The topics with an asterisk are the things with which Tina and I expect you to be fully confident, having practiced them, when the three days are
We call parents because parents want to be involved. They can’t guess that their child is not following our rules, which we painstakingly explain and enforce in the first few weeks of class, unless we tell them. Telling them in the third week of school is too late. So we make the call. Parents and
