Eric said in a comment today:
…[we cannot] align TCI/TPRS with the traditional teaching model. I want to align TCI/TPRS with SLA and with CLT. In this time of transition from one teaching model to another, we probably need “coping strategies,” but let’s be clear that that is not best practice (not what best aligns with SLA nor CLT). Or else, misname what you are actually doing in order to get by with hostile colleagues, but don’t misname what it is you are doing within a community of accepting teachers….
In other words, what I hear on this point, is that we need to get off the “aligning TPRS with traditional teaching” bus. It’s a bus headed nowhere. That is why we need to name our classes for what they do, and to dump the old common labels where we teach French and the traditionalists teach French and it’s all called French. It is NOT all French, it is different kinds of French instruction, different as night is to day, and we must stand up and make that distinction with everyone in our buildings.