It’s that time of year – the time to make lists. I have been wondering what our group members would call the single most difficult aspect of our work with CI/TPRS. So, in addition to any New Year’s resolutions you might send in, also send in what you consider to be the hardest part of our […]
What are you going to start with this week and why? That is another question I have for the group. For example, on the kids’ first day back, I intend to play Fact or Crap with them in English. It’s a game where someone reads out something written on a card that the listener has to
I was up at Eldora Ski Resort today. There was an instructor coaching a kid down a run. He was so positive! And there wasn’t a shred of false praise in his words – I listened carefully. He was really interested in every detail of his student’s skiing. It was amazing, really. As I listened,
Any New Year’s Resolutions? How about if each person who wants to sends in a resolution they have for their teaching this year? Then we can publish them here in the next few weeks and see if there is a common thread, a winner, if you will. That ought to give us some idea of what
[Note, this post is about starting out with new kids, but note that it also morphed into a very productive discussion about PQA, started by Chris, way down below in some of the comments.] This short series of blog posts is for teachers who may have brand new kids for the second semester. The focus of the first
I suppose we should put our attention to next week. Lesson plans and all that. What we want to spend time on for the rest of the year. I know that most of us who teach levels one and two will pretty much continue to hammer the listening and reading CI in the form of
I got this list from John. In response, I made a category for “Most Frequent Words – Latin” etc. – one for each language. If anyone has a list for the other languages, please send them to me and we can get that category up and running. Very useful and thank you, John: Ben, I
I got this – on output – from Robert: I subscribe to the ACTFL SmartBrief. The December 27, 2011, issue had a link to an article about a mother who took her young son to Paris because she wanted him to learn French and grow up bilingual. Here’s the link to the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/24/teaching-child-french-paris Here are
