Cherie Thomas: Albemarle High School (my husband’s school) has a full time Spanish position for next year that just opened up. They are looking for a TPRS/CI trained teacher. The admin is incredibly supportive and provides numerous opportunities for training. They sent teachers to NTPRS last year and several are going to iFLT this summer, […]
Teaching should not be a cookie cutter experience driven merely by the delivery and collection of data – it should be a fun and expansive personalized journey for both teacher and student, one that is different in each class on each day. Teaching the same thing all day is a proven ingredient in teacher and
This is, if not a full on rant, very close to one and far too lengthy to read by teachers who are caught up in the insane month of April’s super spring funkaholicism: Yesterday the teacher who will replace me, who has no idea what TPRS is, came by to observe. I thought I’d bring
It’s been a long year. We need to mix things up a bit. I have an idea. Just for the fun of it, I want us to make a new thread that is different from our normal discussions here in that every sentence we say in every comment field below (no exceptions) has to include only
I have a request of anyone in our group who has been using the Book CI Book over the past year. I know that the Australian group has been using it, right Bu Cathy? Anyway, if you have seen anything in there like typos or content errors, please let me know. By content errors I
A very cool thing happened today. I projected a story from a previous class, one in which we had created a story. I deliberately put nine errors into it. I asked the (first year 6th grade) class to read it after the SSR part of class. Among the nine there was a relative pronoun error
Once taken down from the wall, we can cut up the artist’s four or six panel drawings into individual sections for use in re-ordering the story sequence, for prompts for discussion or for free writes, etc. Please test this and report back here on what you find out. If you discover any other ways to
Alisa Shapiro and Linda Li by chance both sent this article to me on the same day. It must be important. https://goo.gl/uHIAgt Linda said this about it: …I think all world language teachers should read this article before talking about pedagogy…. Thank you Craig for the new link.
The book is progressing o.k. – thanks to those who have asked. It gets me in a headlock on one day and then I do a quick reversal the next. I think I have it pinned down on the mat, and the next thing I know it throws me off and ejects me out of the
As TPRS expands in Europe these slide presentations on Robert’s site will get more attention.They are about the soccer leagues in Germany, France, and Spain: http://www.compellinginput.net This is just launched, so he has asked the group to stop by and let him know if anything needs fixing. The new materials are under the tab “Free
In the video below Diana Krall sets before us an example of good group dynamics, the kind of sharing that we will one day be doing in our classrooms when we finally get over the thought that teaching a language is only about making sure that our students learn the information. Our work involves far
