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

I write stuff on scraps of paper and they collect on my desk next to my computer and then I throw them away. Before I

There is another point to add here, not touched on in the first Broken Record Technique article but critical to the discussion. The teacher in

Example 4: Our final example is from master teacher Robert Harrell to a teacher who was in conflict with her admin team over the concept

It is generally accepted in educational research that people are either visual, auditory or tactile/kinesthetic learners. Some students exhibit balanced combinations of two or even

Listening is the Bedrock My heart goes out to the students whose learning style is predominantly visual but who are in a CI classroom. Why?

Which would you rather have: (a) high test scores from a few of your students, or (b) happiness and confidence in all of your students?

I can report that FVR as a TPRS reading activity started to stretch out and lose its shape and value to students in the early

Of course, students whose learning style is predominantly visual, when given worksheets in a language class, prefer them. But auditory and tactile kids, when given

After your students take the inventory, the main point to stress with them is that even if their visual or tactile learning style conflicts with

Training Them Discuss the 3 learning styles with your students before they actually fill out the inventory. Make sure that the kids understand these points:

Some inventories don’t just provide the students with their dominant learning style, but also give them a score. If you use an inventory that does

A patron wrote to tell me that this videotape about how the brain learns is exactly reflected in my two new Square and Star books.

Building Community Doing the Learning Style Inventories with the kids also serves as a community-building activity because that is exactly what the learning styles inventory

When you tell a student, “Wow! you tested out as a highly visual learner, so obviously this class is going to be more of a

The learning styles message arrives within a context of what is best for the class and not what is best for any one student who

Here is a question about what to do about teaching grammar when the kids will have to matriculate next year to a grammar teacher: What

Some other points to reflect on about learning styles inventories: 1. You can learn lots of valuable information about your class makeup. In one small

Got a few questions this morning –  Q. I’m still having issues going from a character to a story. I feel pressed to develop a

Now that summer is approaching, my prayer for all of us is that we stop trying so hard for stories, stop trying to be entertainers,

Al Franken as Stuart Smalley famously said this memorable line on SNL years ago: “I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like

We are not deliverers-of-instructional-language-services. Teachers who mistakenly think that their job is to deliver language services – well-built and well-planned lessons that divide the language

Accept that you may not get a problem going in a tableau. It’s not a big deal. If you have to control everything, if you