This is a repost from last year. Allison would love some more feedback. She may be new at this but she sure takes the three structures and gets a story going with ease in this first of six short clips that we can all comment on. Here is the link and pls. tell her what you […]
Bob added a coda to his previous song: A couple of things to add here at the end of my third week: 1. I’ve never used Circling with Balls until this year quite like you teach, but I did it by the book. With classes of 32-35, 6 times a day. Today, I realized how
Bob Patrick sent me this short email about a young Latin teacher in Ohio who wrote the Latin Best Practices List (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/latin-bestpractices/) and said: …teaching with TPRS makes me feel like a foreign language teacher – for the first time in my life…. This is a profound statement from a young teacher. Many of us
Bob Patrick has consented to keep sending reports from his classroom. I do think it should be a regular installment here but we have to respect his time and we will take what we can get. I think he is in Week 4 down there in Atlanta but the queue was jammed so this one
Another Latinist (I love using the word Latinist, can you tell?) has joined our group. The Latin presence is strong in our PLC. Ben, By way of introduction… My name is Kevin Clemens. I’m a high school Latin teacher in the north suburbs of Chicago, about to embark upon my third year teaching. I was
Does anyone have the DPS videos link? I know I’m supposed to have them, and I know they are on SchoolTube, but I can’t find them. We get that request from Michele as well as an update on her trip here: Dear Ben, I seem to have lost the link to the DPS teacher videos. Could you
We got the 403 error on this excellent response by Robert to your rubric, jen, so I am just posting it here. Plus, the point he raises needs to be read by all who are following this thread: Jen, you put together an excellent rubric. The only quibble I have with it is making a
Just when we thought we had gotten to a point of closure with jen’s excellent attempt to align her rubric with the Interpersonal Skill of the Three Modes, David Sceggel (Illinois) comes in with a standing two handed slam dunk option. As usual, I am moving this information from the comment to the category field
Adrianne is brand new to this and reports in after her first few weeks: Ben, I am loving how this method forces me into the TL. In the last week and a half, my students have heard more Spanish than last year’s group heard in a month. (what was I thinking last year??). Anyway, I
I have a list of about 125 French – sorry, they’re only in French – verbs on the posters page of this site (click on the Resources page). It is under Useful Information at the bottom of that page. I would like to get extensive repetitions on each one of those verbs over my two
I will add this to the list of student jobs and see if it works this year. I think it might. The kid who is the Bump 5 English Counter counts every time the teacher breaks into English. Not how long they do it, which could be up to two minutes if the teacher is really
When we read poetry, it’s not the words that set us dreaming. It’s the images, thoughts and feelings that they convey. When we listen to music, it isn’t the individual notes that transport us into another place. It’s the overall feeling of the totality of sound that releases our imaginations. So also, when we listen
