John relates an experience where he could see how CI gets into “the language parts of the brains”. It’s excellent: Ben, I just wanted to share what I experienced during a camping trip this week with my 7th graders, all of whom have studied Latin with me for less than one school year, 4 days […]
This is a must read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/chicago-school-closings_n_3319755.html Of critical concern is this paragraph: “Their [the children of Chicago] education has been hijacked by an unrepresentative, unelected corporate school board, acting at the behest of a mayor who has no vision for improving the education of our children,” Lewis said. “Closing schools is not an education plan.
Bob Patrick sent this. It’s pretty sick: This blows my mind. Today, posted on the ACTFL web board is a call for University teachers of the first four courses of language to respond to a survey. Here’s the post. “The purpose of this survey is to collect data on proficiency targets for the first four
My name is Rob Everett and I am wrapping up my first year at the East Bay Waldorf School teaching Grades 1- 8. I first experienced using CI last year and have loved it. It’s a battle to keep my over-whelmed monkey-mind (FIRST YEAR! WALDORF STRUCTURE AND PEDAGOGY! NO SET CURRICULUM! 8 GRADES! ACK!) and grammar-taught
Hi Ben, I teach 10th & 11th grade Spanish on Long Island, NY. This year is my third year teaching. After getting my “feet wet” my first year I started doing activities in my classes my second year to promote speaking because I felt that was the ultimate goal. Although they were fairly successful I
Hi Ben, I’m Julie Schonauer and I teach German I-IV at New Philadelphia High School in northeastern Ohio. I’ve been using TPRS since I went to a one day Blaine Ray workshop way back in 1999 and saw the light on how foreign language could be taught. I’ve been trying to improve my craft every
Here is a very kick ass end of year story from Dan Navar by way of John Piazza. John sets it up: Ben, A few of us have been exchanging emails about final exams, and the fact that some of us are being forced to give a grammar-translation style exam. Dan Navar’s response is below.
I can see threads for next year on this site already developing: Movie Talk RT Levels 3/4/AP Embedded Reading Flow Charts by James We can say that as the 2012 year ends, we have made major, as in super major, inroads into our teaching in these areas: jGR rSF Weekly Two Week Schedule 2013 cRD L
Chill sent this for the Latinists if they haven’t seen it already, which was originally posted on Laurie’s embedded reading blog, to prove how small the world really is: http://ephemeris.alcuinus.net/ Even if we can’t read Latin, the site is nevertheless worth a visit, as many of us have probably never seen so much Latin in one place. We
I couldn’t get this in as a comment (that 404 security rule on comments is a pain in the butt) so I made my comment into this post: Daniel said this: Several of our students rapped in English the whole time during the speaking section. I thought it was funny, because the students obviously didn’t
Here is Lisa’s bio: I work at St. Leo the Great Catholic school in San Jose, CA. I am the Middle School Spanish teacher I taught in bilingual and dual language primary grades for 14 years. When we moved to CA, I decided to apply at St. Leo’s, a small Catholic school, to teach Spanish.
Lavinia, who is in Newark, NJ, sent her bio: Hi Ben! Thank you again for letting me again observe your classroom! I teach at TEAM Academy Charter Schools: Newark Collegiate Academy in Newark, NJ. I am currently teaching French 3, 4, and AP. I thought I was doing TPRS for several years until I saw
