Yesterday Anne wrote this as a comment: I think that simple is best. If they are first-year students I would pare it down. With that said, I really don’t know how anybody uses my scripts. I can’t even use them, now that I teach a language that is different from the one I wrote them […]
I suggested a few days ago in a comment that we make story scripts simpler. I keep thinking about that. What if we did one such simpler story a day? Impossible? Not really. How then? 1. Do the PQA in a few minutes. Blaine did it and it still works for him. Ten minutes of PQA. 2.
Leigh Anne Munoz in CA sent me an email and I asked her if I could share it with the group and she said yes. Here it is: I just have to share. This past spring, 2012, I had a bunch of students pass the French AP last year after only 3 years with me.
Darren wrote this today to add to the articles in our jGR category: Ben, I think sometimes we get caught up in the being an entertainer stuff when really if we just be ourselves it will emerge or it won’t emerge. But if we stick to the jgr then it doesn’t matter if it is
I hesitate to write an article about the election but it seems glaringly absent from the PLC today, the day after Obama’s re-election. Is it true that we are we so afraid of offending each other that we balk at any kind of discussion of the incredible event that happened yesterday? Is fear of offending
We must be very careful in how we use jGR. I had that awareness in class the other day and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was internally pissed at about five kids because they weren’t with me. Then I slowed down like from 45 mph down to 10 mph, and they
Jim sent this. Even though the election is over, I’ll put in the “Readings Based on Matava/Tripp Scripts – Spanish” category for use next year. Maybe Jim will have another book out by then and we can get the script as well as the story below. Jenna va al aeropuerto de Decorah. Es un aeropuerto
Dr. Krashen has set before us an enormous challenge by his suggestion that we learn languages unconsciously. That is because learning in schools is typically about conscious, analytical, left brain deciphering of subject matter. Thus, in languages, we have created books to help us present the language, but that very fact takes us, if Krashen
We dance with the speed of the story. If we go too fast, we encounter bored kids, which is code for kids who don’t understand. So, going too fast is a serious error. If we go too slowly, nothing bad happens. The kids appreciate it, even if is seems way too slow for us. (It should
Liam wrote the text below in a comment here yesterday. We can use what he wrote in the spoken output game in our own classrooms. Now, we all know and have stated many times here that forcing early speech in students is not good. I liken it to taking a car as it sits in the very first
Somebody commented on how hard it is to talk about what we do with others, how they get tongue tied and sound stupid when discussing comprehensible input with certain colleagues. I wish I could find that quote. It was two days ago I think. If you know it please point it out to me. This
Tamula’s Bio: My name is Tamula Drumm and I am a high school Chinese teacher. This is my 5th year teaching Chinese and my 3rd year teaching at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. Last spring, I saw a notice about the upcoming iFLT conference and decided I should go because I needed
