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Kathryn’s Blog

Kathryn Kuypers is one of our young rock star DPS teachers (of Spanish) whose scores in only her first few years of teaching using TPRS (under the guidance of Diana Noonan) were off the chart. So Kathryn last summer decided to take a sabbatical and tour through South Asia for a year. She has been on

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Robert Harrell – 2

Robert continues: The period after the eighth graders left, two teachers came and observed my class. One is a BTSA teacher (i.e. new to the teaching profession and the district, so in training), and the other was his “BTSA friend” who uses TPRS/TCI but has gotten stuck in a bit of a rut because of

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On the Critical Importance of Starting Each Class with the Time, Date and Weather at the Beginning of Each Class We Teach All Year

Paul Kirschling in a few recent comments here said: …we know what we know to be true. And we know that if we don’t do what we know to be true, then we betray our students and ourselves…. …I will not judge but do wonder how long one can last doing something you know is

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Agen Workshop

The TPRS  conference in Agen, France is now on European language teachers’ radar, after three years of smaller conferences and putting roots down. It is a real possibility that Judy will have to limit the amount of attendees. Early Bird price (345 euros) deadline is March 1st and after that it goes up to 425 euros. Sorry I

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Artist Insight

The tripod in my classroom that the artist draws on was faced so that the artist’s back was to me and the class. We could see what she was drawing, but she couldn’t see what I was doing. I turned the tripod so that the artist could face me. That has helped with the problem

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