Research Question

I got a question: “Hi Ben, I am preparing some documents that support CI teaching to show my administrators. I looked through the blog and

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We Have the Research

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

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The Research

We don’t need any more research. In academia that would be a frivolous comment, but as a classroom teacher in languages I support it. Yes,

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The Grading Piece

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

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Circling

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

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Intuition in Storytelling

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

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What We Have Become

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

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Bad Breath

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

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