Cherie continues: This is only my second year using TPRS after a long sabbatical to stay home and care for my triplets, so I have a long way to go, but a lot of good things are happening. I have had teachers request to come and observe my class to see what I do and […]
This report from the field by Cherie Thomas brings some pretty cool news. You can find the conversation that Cherie refers to below at 33:50. Even though Jay Thomas only mentions TPRS once, it is a significant public endorsement and should give any traditional teachers in Virginia a jolt: Salut Ben! I have been out
THE ART OF PEACE I have written about using ideas from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” in classroom management before: http://www.brycehedstrom.com/category/sun-tzu ) I am now promoting “The Art of Peace” by Morihei Ueshiba. The overall message in this slim book is one I sense we need in the World Language community and there are also many gems that
I found these ideas as very applicable to what we are trying to do in our classrooms: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/little-gestures-to-show-love_us_56cf45a3e4b03260bf75d7c2?ir=Healthy+Living§ion=india#gallery/55a93e82e4b065dfe89e3276/11
This content is far too long, taken from TPRS in a Year! but I post it here, for those who have the time and are inclined to read it, because I feel that a kind of tension has made its way into our discussions among those who feel the need to target vocabulary and those who don’t.
Laura Avila in Maine has shared a breakthrough idea on the problem with the artist. As we know, they get so caught up in drawing that they fail to hear much of the language. Here is Laura’s solution and one that I will immediately adapt in my own classroom: Hi Ben, Here is a power
Another timely post from Claire. We’ll be looking for more as some of us here continue to see double on the ESL/TPRS thing: I think we can all be in the TCI thing together. We all do assessments and give feedback, but some times it is less obvious, more informal. That’s fine. I think you [TPRS]
To the degree that I may be responsible for bending Blaine’s original vision of TPRS, I apologize. My intent was honorable – to help other teachers like me who were blown away by the magnitude of the change and wanted some stepping stones to help them along. But it’s getting out of hand. TPRS is
A February 2016 repost, just when I was beginning to deeply explore the no-planning, non targeting approach that is now what I consider a better way to do CI: This burnout test requests that the reader do something a bit odd as they read further into this post. There is a short paragraph below. Don’t read
A way to train teachers that I have found very successful is to just return to something Blaine was doing before all the fracturing of TPRS over the past twenty years, for which I am partially to blame and I apologize, is to return to Passive Mini Stories, or the infamous PMS term. Perhaps it
Something very coincidental happened today. Admin called a meeting to suggest an idea for scheduling Spanish classes for ’17/’18 academic year. We are being encouraged to let it sink in and to expect further meetings to discuss and share our “expert” opinions. Up until now, my school had only offered Honors level courses at Span
A colleague wrote to me and said this: …I am no longer so intimidated at the thought of sending in videos. I am starting to see them as virtual observations, like if we all taught in some big happy school in the sky where we could just pop into each others’ rooms…. This is powerful.
