This is the first of a a three part article from John Piazza: Hi Ben, I wanted to share with the group something I have begun to do, and it has already paid off in terms of getting parents on my side, and hopefully ensuring the enrollment numbers I need for next year. Every day, […]
Another option for parent’s night from the archives: Anne Matava has an open house this week but no set parent demo sessions so she just prepared the document below as she meets the parents informally. Anne is new to the school and these parents know nothing but traditional instruction in world languages and from what I
From the archives: If your department is tipping or has tipped in favor of CI, I suggest that we create a document that we can all use at the first Parents Night next fall. In that way, we can tell the parents that this same document is being presented to parents around the world, that
Greg has kindly shared this link with us in case any of us want to use it at Parent’s Night: http://tinyurl.com/acquireSpanish
I found another article from Nathaniel, from 2015: Should we mix CI instruction with textbook instruction? Nathaniel Hardt discusses why it is unwise to do so: 1. Kid-centered comprehensible input instruction is of interest to kids. Textbooks are not. When required by my school to use a textbook, I decided that I would try to
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Sean, Laura, Leigh Anne and any other upper level teachers exploring the use of CI at those levels please read and give me feedback even though this post is long. Leigh Anne I know you were in MN and I would esp. like to know how your experience there relates to what I wrote below.
If someone asked me what I thought two major factors are that drive good classroom management, I would answer: 1. an immediate response to every single inappropriate behavior when it happens in class. 2. completely understandable instruction that allows each student to become intrinsically motivated in the class. instead of being forced to do so.
This was written today on the ACTFL list by Paul Sandrock, ACTFL Director of Education: … ACTFL has been asked directly to respond: we do not find disagreement in the discussion around the various points being discussed…. I interpret this to be an endorsement of TCI/TPRS. But instead of trying to isolate pieces of Paul
I’m writing something here on upper levels on the PLC since some of us have been thinking about upper levels lately. The way I think about levelS 3 and 4 is lots of reading, and I don’t worry about making it CI so much. Writing is done far too much at the upper levels. They
This group had an online war with ACTFL four or five years ago and since it came up in recent discussion here I am reposting what the director of ACTFL said in response to everything we were saying back then, which were strong points that needed to be rebutted by ACTFL but weren’t. Instead, all
An important repost at this time of year: I keep thinking about what Krista said about the 5-7 extrovert kids: ..shy students who are brave enough to volunteer a suggestion but then don’t have their suggestion chosen, are, in my experience, quite reluctant to ever volunteer again. The stories then revolve around the 5-7 most talkative
Sean reports from Chicago: Hey wonderful people on Ben’s PLC! The hardest part of our jobs, I think many will agree, is validating our instructional approach to our administrators. Here is a little exchange I had this week with my principal, the only person in the building that asks me about students speaking more. My
