A teacher contacted me awhile back. She had been attacked about using CI from a team leader. I told her to get some research from

In my opinion, one reason that kids don’t engage in our comprehensible input classes is that we don’t engage them. We get going too fast.

Q. What does one do without the support of one’s colleagues when trying to make the change to comprehensible input based instruction? How does one

How odd that the power of the old guard and their influence on administrators, in the face of the actual research, is enough to keep

A CI teacher has again locked horns with a parent simply because he uses best practices in foreign language instruction. Are there any CI teachers

I got this question from Michelle in Australia: Q. I really struggle to match the effortless way you stay in L2 and I feel like

Example 2: Nathaniel Hardt once received this letter from a parent. It is typical of the kind of letter teachers sometimes receive from parents who

Every now and then we get challenged by misguided and misinformed parents. They are often mean-spirited as well, especially when they feel that their child

Example 3: This third example is from James’ teacher – who wishes to remain anonymous – who locked horns with a parent simply because he

Please find below an extensive discussion about grading when using either the Middle School Square or the High School Star. You’ll need coffee, since this

I’m working with a teacher who has been using Circling, which is the old way that some TPRS and CI teachers still use to get

Q. You’ve called QL3 and QL4 – where and with whom – the “power questions”. Can you elaborate? A. Many years ago while watching Susan

In my previous post on classroom management I said that the two things that I’ve concluded about this vastly ignored topic are to (1) use

There are 3 secrets to classroom management in my view: 1. Teach an interesting class to keep them engaged. 2. Grow a spine for the

I know a teacher who thinks that casual conversation in the classroom is ok. He thinks that his students are his friends and they all

Have my readers understood what the purpose of my previous three posts on CM has been? If not, I will repeat: 1. CM is a

If you have ever had to endure a child whose inappropriate comments were always just below the radar, read this post. It’s a conversation with

Let’s fix this thing once and for all about CM and just say it flat out because it is true: CM is not separate from

Teaching using CI should have a compassionate element to it. That is, we should remember how damaged some of our students are and we should

Why do students choose to not continue on in our four year programs? After all, a four year program of language instruction should not be