I got this from Paul. We were talking about how much stuff we try to cram into the hours we have. It’s like trying to pour the ocean into a thimble. I deeply appreciate Paul’s frankness here, because trying to do too much has the frightening potential to make us crazy for real: …I’m trying […]
I have long needed a simple and organized (therefore stress free) way to plan what I do each week with the kids. So below is my own way of organizing all of the information that I have gathered over the past twelve years in a way that works for me within the constraints of a week that contains only 4
Grant sent this in January: Ben, This is my 5th or 6th year of using TCI, only the 3rd using TCI exclusively (or what I feel is exclusively). Each year I’ve gotten better. Each year I become more and more skilled at staying in the target language and staying comprehensible and interesting. But, each year around
The blog content has gotten very busy – probably Jason’s visit. The queue is pretty jammed. So this is just an update so as to not to lose any of them. Here they are: 1. Robert Harrell’s novel about the gentlemen from the North Sea. 2. Metacocognition as an active part of self assessment in the CI
Here is a list of 72 pretty good verbs for a level 1 French class. It’s not scientific – I just pulled them out of the air. Please correct or add or subtract. This gives me 6 verb strip posters. If you think that they are ok and want them in German and/or Spanish then please get me the
I prefer words blown up in strips of about 12 words each about 1″ high. I won’t be doing word “walls” next year but those word “strips”. They are new for me. I experimented with them this year and I like it. You can see them in the Krashen video I took but haven’t had a chance
I am just going to start this list and then date it for the first week of August 2012. We can update stuff as it occurs to us. To start the year, we can ask ourselves if have addressed these things: 1. All Wall Posters (see poster on this site for examples) including: a. Verb
Do we still want to keep adding song files and Matava/Tripp readings to the site? I am trying to simplify the site for the new March version, and only want to keep those categories if they are useful to and used by group members. Let me know. I have no problem keeping them, but only want
I am launching a new site look in March. It will be much more easy to use. I am also making a lot of posters available to blog subscribers. Maybe some of us will want to use some of them. But I need the Spanish and German for the words below, if anybody has time to
I’m in the back seat of a car, Beniko Mason is driving a small car, one of those cars of the future, while I was talking with Jason who was next to Beniko in the front seat. But I suddenly realized that Jason was driving and he was next to me. It freaked me out,
I was watching Sponge Bob and Patrick fixed an impossible plot in ten seconds and the episode ended. I won’t go into the details, but it reminded me that I often forget to wrap up unresolved stories. I want to get to the work of the illustrator, the quiz, and now to the metacognitive piece
The ability to direct actors is not something we are trained to do. But we must embrace that challenge. In my own opinion, directing actors is about looking for possibilities. We keep our inner sonor ready to find the moment in the scene to milk just one sentence or even one word, if it has
