So today I just started clapping the word instead of saying it. In my mind, it counts as a repetition, even I am just clapping it. Why am I clapping it? I think because it catches the attention of the mind. Thus, if I just got about 20 reps on a envoyé – sent – then […]
Can anyone offer any help to Shauna on this question? Hi Ben – …I am required to use Discovering French and VHL’s D’accord- do you have any idea where I could find resources that might align with those books? Yes, I have to use them. As you said, you never know when someone will pop-in
Usually parents nights only give you ten minutes or so to explain your program to the parents. I would put all the informational stuff on your school website or in a letter to give them explaining any important policies in under one minute and then do some CI. Those parents nights can be mind-numbingly boring
I just went through an 85 minute class on a story with 6th graders. We didn’t even do any PQA and we didn’t even finish the story. I just stayed with my barometer, the kids stayed with me, and it was magical. When the fabric started to unravel a few times, I just started over
Since my classes are small, I have been adding in invisible students. They are in the actual seating chart. In one class there is a Seth and an Ella. In another a Dward Fardward, an Arnold House, and a Biddley Flurgenjurgen, whom I tell my students is an actual made up student in a classroom
For some reason, this year, I am using stories much more than in the past. I don’t know why. And much less PQA. In some cases the kids want to get to a story so badly that I just dispense with the PQA. It doesn’t seem to bother them, in fact it bothers them when
I misspoke in a comment a week ago and want to clarify. I said I didn’t use the laser at all. But I do. For distant posters like Sabrina’s “How you doing?” poster that is such an effective tool to start class. Or the colors/numbers chart. But I still try to limit the use of
(We have talked about the use of L1 in the classroom topic a LOT here over the past few years, especially last year. This is my update.) James Hosler has always been a big proponent of just hanging out in English with the kids, and I have too. It just seemed like one of the
Again, I would never try anything like this back in my big urban classes in Denver. However, since the classes are small and the students very highly motivated college bound kids, I can give homework as described below. I had previously published these homework guidelines here, a few days ago, but these have been updated.
I would never have assigned homework during those years when I had 35 students in a class, but now my classes are small (in the teens) and so I am able to do this for free write homework: Two Free Writes: Students in Foundational French are required to do at least two out-of-class five minute free
Clearly I have too much time on my hands to be thinking so much about the standards. But I have always wanted to clear up the soup on them that has always existed in my mind. Also, it’s a rainy Sunday in India with heavy monsoon activity and I still have that feeling that I
