In terms of getting better at the our comprehensible input instruction, I see four areas that need support and therefore should be the primary focus of this blog: 1. Emotional support (perhaps the most important, because of the incredible system pushback we all experience). 2. Support in classroom technique (how to do PQA, stories, etc. – the […]
In the continued interest of our collective mental health, I have decided to say that I no longer wish to feel as if I am doing something wrong as a teacher just because school buildings are set up that way. I mean, buildings are set up to have a kind of element of shame directed at
I am totally getting into reading these bios. I feel so much trust in them, and lots of honesty. Here is another gem of honesty, this one from Louisa: Hi Ben, First of all, I want to thank you for all of the time and energy you have put into making the blog a truly
A big burly guy gets on the the bus and says to the driver, “Big Bruno no pay!” and walks to the back. The driver is insulted but he’s a small guy and this guy is a hulk and doesn’t want to mess with him. Every day, the Hulk comes on and says, “Big Bruno
Andrea shows us in her bio how not having perfection in the language in no way keeps us from helping kids succeed in school – her French program has tripled using TPRS. Not too bad: Hi Ben, I am a French teacher in Indiana. This is my fifth year teaching, but only my third year teaching French.
This bio is just fun to read: My name is Naomi Graham. I started teaching in middle age, when my husband and I moved to a small rural community in Upstate New York where jobs were scarce. I have always loved learning, my mom was a teacher, so education was always a part of my
Norm is up in Canada and shares this video that the Canadian Ministry of Education did with his classes last year: Hey Ben, Been lurkin more than contributing lately. I’m sending a link to a video. Please post or use as you see fit. http://resources.curriculum.org/fsl/oral/secondary.html (It’s under core french grade 9,10,11.) Norm
This is from last spring. I was reflecting on how well my kids could write (free writes rules are on the posters page of this site) after very little practice that year. In fact, we didn’t focus on writing at all. I thought I would post that blog entry from last May again here as
I got this interesting email from a colleague. It shows how people are changin: I was starting to think I knew most of the basics about TPRS, and then Carol [Gaab] and Terry [Thatcher] both blew me away [at a workshop]. Using this method is simultaneously so simple and so complex – so much to
Inner Circle Members, I would like to go over some changes that are going to be taking place to this membership starting in October. As you know, this membership started as way to make my blog private. But since then, it has turned into so much more. It has now become a coaching/training membership and community
Hey, you may get an email like this: We have detected a fairly large number of login attempts using your email address, from various different geographical locations. To protect your account from abuse, and to help us protect our content, we have locked your account. It seems that the program I am using to support this site has
Jim wrote in a comment: One of my adult students explained that she was feeling [great confidence] after listening repeatedly to a CD I made of all our class stories. Here’s what she said to me about it: “The stories are so familiar, so I wasn’t sure I needed the CD or that it would
