I’m heading out of New Delhi tomorrow morning for three weeks with two of my boys (Landen – 16 and Evan – 18) to points south in India (Maharashtra and Kerala). I won’t be taking a computer. There is lots to read here (nine years worth of discussion), and also don’t forget the Forum, good […]
There are more than 6000 educators in Denver Public Schools. Diana Noonan, World Language Coordinator for DPS, last year won a district level award called the Leadership Lamp for her work in World Languages. (Diana is also the current president of the Colorado Coalition of Foreign Language Teachers and the reason for Denver’s rocketing WL
Sabrina has shared a clip that she did of one of her students whom she interviewed at the end of last year. She showed it in Agen as well and reports that people were “very happily surprised, even the French!” Here’s a little background. Brie was a 1st year French student at Thomas Jefferson High
There is a grammar presence in school buildings that can force even the bravest among us down to our knees. There is mental and emotional pain that comes with dealing with that presence, which is a kind of dark and shadowy thing. This presence hides. Naming it here over the years has helped us to
Another good bail out move when you just don’t feel like launching the CI rocket is to have a stack of words ready to place on a central table on the room. This is Bob Patrick’s OWATS activity (originally intended for front loading vocabulary from authentic texts with upper level students to make the texts
That lengthy and deep thread about blurting from about three or four months ago (new people search “blurting” on this topic if you want to not feel so alone) had a lot of excellent ideas on how to deal with blurting in class. Each, of course, like everything we discuss here, will be as valuable
The text below is being added to the Primers if you ever need to have the “homework discussion” with any of your students, colleagues, or parents: There is a place for Homework, just not homework as it is traditionally conceived. Many people read Alfie Kohn (The Homework Myth), for example, and think he is saying
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Can anyone who has seen Grant’s video describe that class switch-up thing that he does? Some of us are waiting until the break to watch those links from Grant. just due to time constraints, and so haven’t been able to grasp this idea, which I assume has to do with classroom management. Also, I am
The Forum here (hard link above right) is kind of a side room for newer people who may want some more personal responses to their questions and concerns (vs. the more general discussion here on the blog). Find the tutorials tab for log-in information. The Forum is less active now as people are more busy
It’s working better to drop the iPad and use big sheets of paper. I can check in with the artist a lot more since I can see what is being drawn, and hold the artist responsible to me visually. Is anyone else doing dropping the iPad? Just curious. (The iPad made the artist stop listening
I did a bit of editing of a comment made by Jim on MT today, so we can have it here for easy reference via the search bar. It’s clear and good advice: “Starting with still images (screen shots) of a MovieTalk clip is one option, and is recommended for those who are still new
