The biggest mistake a teacher can make in a TPRS classroom is not to speak too fast or any of that stuff. Rather, it is the failure to employ as many students as possible – up to half of them – in active and meaningful jobs in your classroom.
Video Comments are a new and very useful and easy way to get into each others’ classrooms in a virtual way. Angie videotaped her class. Sent it to YouTube in under a minute. No computer involved. Just an iPad. No effort so far. Then cut and pasted the link here. Alisa clicked on it. No
What I mean by a Video Comment is that we use the comment fields as places to post 15 min. or less videos. The idea is this: 1. We film a class. Watch the students act like it’s an observation and do their best listening. 2. We tell the videographer to stop it anywhere from
We need to see if the potential here might possibly happen. It could change how we use this blog. Angie said: …I was able to upload straight from the iPad to You Tube…. I replied: Angie so if I videotape a class and my videographer in each class films the class in segments less than
From Craig: Just started another trimester here and I feel like things have been going well. I’ve been focusing just on the super 7. I used a .ppt to introduce 4 on monday “esta, es, tiene, disgusta” then two more tuesday:”va, and hay” . On wednesday we reviewed the words with some cloze style reading
I love not knowing where a class is when it comes in. I love not planning. The students walk in and I ask them where they are in the story/reading process. It is either a story, new or in progress, or a reading. If it is a reading I need to have it ready so
I have an “advanced” 8th grade (that means they have done grammar worksheets since 6th grade) class where the range of abilities is so wide that the class slowly split over the course of the year. I tried taking the ones who were fluent or nearly fluent aned putting them into a side room to
This is from Michele Whaley in Alaska with my response in a comment field below: Hi Ben, I’m on the Rez! (Sorry for shouting. I have one more day here, and the language is dying.) I can’t talk on [my] blog about some of the roadblocks here (take a look at the curriculum and you’ll
If I were me, knowing what I know now, I would try to get a job in an international school and stay on that lucrative and tax free circuit (there is a circuit) and stay there for my entire career. The economy and all the cuts in funding make it so, practically speaking, only teaching
Here are the links to the video clips of the now completed Kandy the Korn series. The class is a beginning group of 6th graders. I used Angie’s idea of loading directly from the iPad up to YouTube in the clips that my videographer was able to keep under 15′. (He forgot on a few
I know it’s a bit early to start thinking about posters for next year, which should be very limited, but I wanted to share a poster that I have had up outside my classroom all year right next to the door. Linda has one just like it outside of her classroom as well. When acquiring a
