We can only send one tape to a visiting school (CC Rule #3). So, it wouldn’t be a bad idea at all, to increase incentive and buy-in from each class, to make all our classes compete against our other classes to earn the right to submit the tape representing our school. We make the competition among all other classes studying the same language within […]
I updated the rules. Pls. object to any, support or add any: • Only one day max on PQA to prepare them. • Film the first story you get and send it in. • No stopping the camera. • Don’t start filming until you have ALL the releases signed by kids’ parents. The copies can
Have studies been done to show the success of Curtain’s ideas, in particular the four points raised above? Where is the research supporting Curtain? Or, because she is Helena Curtain, does she not have to provide any research for her claims? Or does having a big brother with lots of money to protect you allow you to
The entire product Curtain offers must ultimately fall like a house of cards, when the teachers who stay with the textbook over the next few decades lose their jobs due to their failure to align with the ACTFL standards, and as their: small upper level enrollments can no longer be justified. school budgets tighten up.
Nobody seems to be calling Curtain out on what she is doing. But she is a false prophet in that she has taken Krashen’s and Ray’s ideas and packaged them in a way that misrepresents them. Her ideas are not geared toward maximum student gains, even if she says so and people believe her and
Krashen has shown that we learn languages unconsciously and Curtain should not be playing with that. Nobody should be playing with that. She is wrong to promote such a twisting of his words. It’s insulting to his work. It distorts*. The application of Krashen’s ideas in TPRS by Blaine Ray require that the entire process of instruction
In the Helena Curtain scenario, which is happening all over the country right now today in classrooms near you, the teacher doesn’t have to embrace the extremely radical and hugely effective idea that comprehensible input really does mean creating a din of uninterrupted L2 in the minds of the students. Comprehensible input and the textbook
What Curtain has done is very dangerous to language educators. She has watered down what cannot be watered down – Krashen. She has pulled what she knows of Krashen into the realm of the textbook, and so has Mimi Met, who has had ties to the Realidades company, which is really scary. Is Karen Rowan
Helena Curtain is dangerous to our profession, if one accepts Krashen. Why is this? In my opinion, Curtain has cobbled together a lot of ideas from TPRS, and misrepresented many of Blaine Ray’s ideas, and even implied that some of them are her own. Blaine Ray’s ideas work and hers don’t. Why is this? Because
James watched that Helena Curtain video he mentioned here a few days ago. He makes an amazing point below, one that rattled me and substantiated a lot of things that I have thought over the years. Thank you James for sharing this with us: Ben – I was watching the Helena Curtain video and found a
Ben, A student I had last year came to the middle school today to visit and I ALMOST got teary eyed at what he told me. He is currently in Spanish 2 at the high school and he said that I was an awesome teacher, they learned so much and they learned more last year
We had a DPS Learning Lab hosted by Annick Chen today. Two takeaways that I got were: 1. We were talking about gesturing and Paul Kirschling said, “It’s dead if I don’t gesture and make them gesture.” This struck me because I am so lame with gesturing. I even forget to do it in PQA. I think
