We could say a lot about the move to ACTFL’s Three Modes of Communication by the College Board AP Exams. Indeed, we have already done so, in a discussion that has lasted since May, 2011 when Robert first brought it up. The intensity of the discussion over the ensuing months revealed that many of us […]
When Jason Fritze was in town a few weeks ago, he quoted Marsha Wilbur about the new AP exams: …if we want students to be successful on the new AP exams, there must be CI from the beginning of level 1, with lots of reading…. Jason’s energized follow-up comment to that was , “You gotta DO
Around this time of year, my melting Grammar Man (he’s almost completely melted), starts thinking about how our students are going to “do” on end of year asssessments. My kids haven’t written much this year, and what’s left of GM wants me to teach some “structure”. So I asked Diana the following question this evening :
Laurie’s winter break is over and this is definitely one of those posts from her blog that we all want to read on a Sunday nite. No, we don’t have to do everything right and no we don’t have to be perfect teachers of whatever method, but here is one thing that we certainly can do
Clarice compiled the main ideas of the thread from last week on rigor into a poster. Since it is in the form of a Word file, it can be adapted in any way (communication with administrators, etc.). Copies in other languages will be available on the posters page of the new site should anyone want to use
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What we do is so emotional. We are just squirming around on the cutting edge of this change, trying to keep our balance and often failing. We have such difficult interactions with our colleagues. The essense of our work is in such deep conflict with the way things are done now. As emotional as the
Again, we express our thanks to both Brigitte (Ch. 2) and a master of English, French and German (and who knows what other?) languages Martin Anders (Ch. 3): Die Vitalienbrüder Der neue Schiffsjunge putzt das Deck. Es ist harte Arbeit, und er ist müde, aber er darf nicht aufhören zu putzen. Er muss das ganze Deck
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From Robert: Hi Ben, Martin is the one to thank this time for his work proofing the German in this chapter and then translating it into English. Robert The Victual Brothers The new cabin boy is cleaning the deck. It is hard work, and he is tired, but he is not allowed to stop
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I got this question from an ELA teacher who is not a member of our group: …do you have any word lists for English classes? I saw on your website that you have a ton of resources for Spanish and French, but I couldn’t find much on English…. That actually blew my mind a little
This is pretty bad ass. I think of it as a two year list: demande pose apporte achète peut veut lave compte boit conduit mange tombe trouve finit vole oublie va a est écoute sait connaît apprend vit habite prend perd fait a besoin ouvre ferme paie joue il pleut il neige lit répond court
La pipe du papa du Pape Pie pue. (author unknown) Le ver vert va vers le verre vert. (mine) Qu’est-ce que c’est que cette caisse cassée? (from Paul)
I got this request: “I’m in the process of rewriting the course description for my French class, if you have any advice or ideas you could share with me I’d really appreciate it. I’m the only French teacher at my school and the Spanish teachers aren’t on board with TPRS yet and I’m really struggling
