Hi Ben, Here’s my bio. Sorry for the delay! Growing up, teaching language was not part of the plan. I was a smart hispanic kid in a tough, urban school district with big goals and ambitions. My parents are both from Mexico, and though I acquired English at a very young age, Spanish was the […]
I’ve known Guy through conferences for years. A class act. He doesn’t post a lot but here is what we could call a combination Bio and Report from the Field. He is in SoCal. Thanks Guy and will see you in San Diego in a few months. This is my third year of TPRS/CI. My
I always felt as if I didn’t have time to do a parallel novel. But now I realize that the term is misleading. We can spin out into a parallel scene while reading a novel, or we might be able to set up a parallel set of events for more than one scene, possibly up to one
I was coming back on the train from a Denver Nuggets basketball game and saw four teenage girls huddled together and a guy was staring at them. They knew it. It was one of those things you see on trains. I wrote the idea to Matava and she created this below. I named it and
Hi Ben, I know you are busy with updating members on the PLC. There is no hurry on this, but I am getting increasing pleas to do an inservice for the German teachers of my province and the neighbouring one. I keep talking about TPRS and they want to know what I am talking about.
Another Report from the Field that is really a celebration, this one from James: Ben, I thought everyone might like to hear some good news, all of which has roots in our work here in this PLC. My Latin program is growing hugely next year. We got numbers recently and mine are simply stupefying everyone.
So there is jen in NH and Jennifer in NJ just to be clear. This Report from the Field – really a celebration – is from jen in NH: Hi! I just had to share this! I don’t think I have ever had this sort of comment / enthusiasm about my class. Note that it
Bob’s 8 hour workshop with World Language and Literacy Ed department at the University of Georgia is coming up this weekend. Bob – I kind of assume this is a closed workshop but if not let us know here in case anyone in or around Athens or Atlanta might want to attend.
I wonder how cool it would be to go over a script as a random reading exercise, as per the script (link below) about the little girl and the animal story, and do R & D with that first, before the students have any idea it’s on YouTube. It would just be so neat for
Sabrina also sent this third YouTube clip for French teachers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR4mlLiyjYo She shares: If anyone needs ideas on what or how to circle with this ipad versus paper clip: here is what I did today and it worked beautifully. I first watched the clip thinking about what I’d want to circle with the kids (same
Sabrina recently sent us this second YouTube link to the little French girl making up a story about animals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381bv0_Gpo8 Both Sabrina and I have decided to spend a few days (at least!) on this. Sabrina was nice enough to provide the script bc other French teachers here will want it. Note that Sabrina left
For French teachers from Sabrina. Show them to your classes tomorrow: This is a very short clip ( 33 seconds) showing how texting and driving can be deadly in Canadian French (good to have them hear different accents of French). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGw5lDAYdQ&feature=youtu.be (Publicité télévisée de la SAAQ sur les textos au volant. Ce message publicitaire vise
