A few weeks ago somebody posted a reference to “Story Proof“. Byron added some important stuff to that post. Here it is, with the part that spoke to me loudest in my italics referencing the

Week 1: 1. Monday (next week not tomorrow because we have state testing this week) – I isolate the big structures from Françoise Hardy’s Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles – that song is my

Here is a graduate TPRS course offering coming up in South Carolina: TPRS Graduate Course (for teachers who would like to use TPRS with students of all ages and levels) Instructor: Elizabeth Hughes Location: Columbia,

We had been getting all geeked up about a possible early summer Maine thing with Jody and Laurie and Jim and Matava and Skip, but lots of them all have school well into June, when

Stephen sent this. It is definitely very cool: Ben, I watched this video today on fora.tv about storytelling. I thought it was interesting what Penguin Digital Publisher Jeremy Ettinghousen had to say about the future

The blogs from y’all are stacking up in the queue and I apologize for that, but I have also been asked to limit the quantity of content here since it is a lot to read

I don’t know how to answer this but maybe somebody else does: Hi, Ben!  I am writing to ask for input about my district’s Elementary World Language HF Structure list. In trying to edit it, we

[I got this from K a few days ago. Installment 15 of A Blow To His Confidence. If you remember, in installment 14 K told us that she was going to tell a story to

Ben, Since we talked last weekend I have been taking up your and Diana Noonan’s (DPS World Languages Coordinator) challenge/mandate of using less English in the classroom.  It seemed like an odd idea, after all,

The following is a synopsis of a proposal to revamp foreign language instruction in Colorado secondary schools. The original text was written by the Coordinator of World Languages in Denver Public Schools, Diana Noonan. It

I’m listening to Carla Bruni’s L’Amoureuse right now. I had a shock. I thought about what a terrible loss that sometimes kids get turned off to stuff like this in the name of grammar study.

I must remember that not all kids, nor teachers for that matter, are cut out for conversing in L2. Many have not learned the art of conversation in English yet. I can’t fault the kids.

It is an incredible thing to hear, just before class as the students are quieting down, their genius, fun, humor in the form of their discussion, which all kind of fades out and disappears when

I’ve pulled together this list of other TPRS bloggers. If you have a TPRS blog send it and we will add it. This list is also on Thomas’ site: Laurie Clarq: blog.heartsforteaching.com Jennifer B: www.profesoraloca.blogspot.com

Michel has a pretty thought provoking blog entry about some basic premises in elementary TPRS: http://mmbaker1.wordpress.com/ Click on the blog for Feb. 7 although I really like what she wrote on Feb. 11 also about TPRS

Robert has figured out something that has been bugging anyone who has tried to reference a url in a comment hon this blog, and we are glad for this information: Hi Ben, I just posted under “TPRS

Apparently K. just got her first teaching job at the age of 15: I have more exciting news.  I got an e-mail from another IB French teacher. She teaches 10th and 12th grade, and my

Chill sent me this yesterday: Ben: I recently caught up with a friend who was my mentor teacher when I student taught about 17 years ago. I shared my TPRS story and sent her to

The lunch crowd at K’s school has been meeting regularly. Here is an update: Hey, Mr. Slavic, My reading lesson went great – my teacher wants to do reading like that from now on! It’s catching

TPRS can function in unique ways once the kids have been trained in playing the game. I got this from Beth Crosby in Maine today. The story here is unique to TPRS – it wouldn’t

Diana Noonan is spearheading a three year program in our district to get some hard data on TPRS programs through three years. This would involve articulated TPRS-only programs from middle to high school in Denver

While watching film of one of my classes I saw a still shot of an actor. The concentration on her face (we were saying that she wanted to drink a glass of water) was intense.

Thomas and I want to set up lists of links on our sites so that we can have easier access to each others’ blogs, but we need for you to send in your blog addresses

I got an email from a colleague who asked if K really existed or if I was making the entire thing up. She really does exist and she is going to do great things –

Jason Fritze tells us how we can just open to a page in one of those super sized children’s books and just start talking about it. Totally stress free teaching. The words are so easy

Warning: this is one long ass blog that I wrote, really to myself, in an attempt to pull out of a downward mid-winter spiral. I’m trying to get a focused high CI week going, because