Actually Craig kind of answered his own question. This is an email from him two days after the question I posted earlier this morning. Here it is: Yesterday I was trying to force this story on my kids cuz I came up with it and I thought it was funny. Introduced it in class and […]
Please let’s give Craig West as many responses as we can to this super important question at this time of year: What do you do if you don’t own any novels and you have a class that won’t settle down and focus enough to do story asking?
Her is a Dropbox link to folders with charts that Diane Neubauer has used with middle schoolers: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pp5qehu691dkmzo/AADML6qwtOH2sxVPBSqG1LpIa?dl=0
I got this great question on vPQA from Keri Colwell, whose name is now Biron as Colwell was her maiden name. This question needed to be asked: ….the vPQA seems wonderful. However, does it take away from the spontaneity of it all? I tried it once and it seemed to be a bit restricted since
This month’s PLC Teacher of the Month is a fountain of courage in confronting anyone about best practices in language education. I find it ironic that in a recent comment here, just a few days ago, he admired Nathaniel’s (Teacher of the Month in March) courage while calling himself chicken. It’s just not so. Those
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This is from Robert Allen in Hong Kong. Can anyone in the group help? Hi Ben, Do you know if any large schools using TPRS would be willing to share a curriculum document or scheme of work detailing what is taught in what class in what year? It’s for trying to convince a head of
We talk about personalization, but do we really know what it is? In spite of knowing how important it is to our overall success with TPRS, do we consciously make efforts to convey our feelings of joy that we are with those certain kids that day in that moment? We must absolutely choose discussion materials,
By limiting what we choose to read with our students to only certain paragraphs that have energy and skipping over the rest, we give new meaning to the term “narrow and deep”. When we limit the amount of text we choose to read, we can expand the same sentence or structure much more than we
This is a post from 2009, from Carla. It is a great reminder for all of us about what is at the heart of PQA, as many of us are doing nothing but talking to the kids right now, getting them ready to read and write with confidence as soon as we can get that great auditory foundation
Alisa has kindly shared her version of the Danielson framework, which Laurie originally adapted for TPRS/CI classrooms: alisa highlights of clarq adapted framework
Here are some ideas on TPR for our Eric, who shows us how to take our TPR game up a level. This article also appeared on the moretprs list recently: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/moretprs/conversations/messages/145543 Eric shares: Hi Ben – Noting the recent interest in TPR, I will share with you what I wrote about TPR in a personal
Julie recently wrote here about the absolute prime role of TPR in setting up her vPQA program in November. We have talked about TPR a lot, but, if you are like me, you need to take it up a level. The fact is, having observed Julie and other DPS teachers over the past year, and
