Laurie wrote this in connection with the Sean Lawler video discussion: http://blog.heartsforteaching.com/

We keep coming and going to and from the Scope and Sequence thread. Diana told me yesterday, in another clarifying comment, that any experienced CI teacher would not even need to ever look at the DPS Scope and Sequence, nor would they need to work from the list of 100 most common words (for lower

I had mentioned that Julie gave another DPS Learning Lab yesterday. It was even better than the first and quite different. She still used the Power Point slides which Ruth labeled Visual PQA and for now at least it looks like that term will stick. In this kind of Visual PQA Julie spends lots of

After another great observation of Julie Soldner’s classes yesterday, I learned from Diana Noonan an interesting point about circling that I had never heard before: …the only reason to circle is to teach vocabulary…. It makes sense. If our students already know a word, why circle it? Thus, we must be ever watchful when we

Here is an excellent brain break that Sabrina used in her Learning Lab on Wednesday. They probably exist in other languages as well:

Mildred is the captain of the girl’s basketball team. She is rough. She had to be rough because she was thrown around physically by her abusive parents in a double wide trailer growing up. One day I learn that one of the walls in Mildred’s trailer has a gaping hole in it, covered with plastic.

This passage is from PQA in a Wink! It connects with recent discussion around Sean’s video: PQA and the Oppositional Student Why go to conferences, read books, spend money to learn the method, only to be undercut by one or two defiant students at the beginning of the year? It happens all the time and

Well it looks like the blurting discussion is about over. People read carefully, reflected on their own practice, and made decisions about what to do about L1/L2 use in their own classrooms. No one was right, there is no one correct way to do it. We’re just here to share ideas. Eric wrote me an

This post is to re-state what I think our position toward our work together here should be. Please comment below so that we can have a kind of town meeting on this important topic. It’s good to do that every once in a while. This is the time to voice concerns about the direction we

The language acquisition design exists and operates fully in the unconscious mind, and not the conscious mind, and it is in control of this process of language acquisition. Ours is but to deliver the CI. We are delivery drivers and we drive little trucks with CI written on the side. We need to get over

Here is the second Arizona article from Michael. This is the one that needs strong feedback from us: Hey guys, I know you are all busy with various things but I was looking for a bit of feedback. Based on many of things presented on the PLC and with ACTFL I have been sending several