I’m adding things to my book Stepping Stones to Stories and want to know if there is any update to this list (from last summer) from anyone. What are people currently using for their story artists? – Here are the names of some interactive whiteboards that are currently on the market: Explain Everything ($2.99)* Doceri […]

I went back and found a comment made by Michele over a year ago here when we had our first big thread about MovieTalk. Here is part of what she said last year: [The originator of Movie Talk is] Ashley Hastings. Here is his page, which explains everything, including giving you sample talking scripts for

This is something that can be used by French teachers this week from our Bryan Whitney. Thanks Bryan! – Bonjour Ben, I just made this for next week, and I thought others might find it useful (though it is in French). I’m not quite sure how to share it with the group, but I would

Ruth Fleishman sent us this today and thank you Ruth! – Hi Ben – I’ve done a few “Watch & Discuss” (or whatever we are calling it) last year and this year. The discussion here on the blog and Eric’s video have given me some ideas to improve what I do. I just started one

Diane ends her three part explanation with this: Approaches to teaching reading in Chinese: Different teachers have different approaches related to using pinyin and characters. In the CI world, I know of three. (It seems that all of them work in the long run, though I have a preference for cold character reading.) – Use

I wanted to add this comment from Robert to the “When Attacked” category. Below he gives practical ideas to younger colleagues for responding with facts to attacking colleagues. These points were posted here by Robert a few years ago but this seems like a good time to review them. New teachers need to know that

Chris offers us below what in my view is a very good description of some of the salient features of what a MT/YTD class should look like. Chris I took out what you said about the no dialogue weakness in MT since you agreed with Jim in a later comment in this thread that we

Here’s a report from one of the Latin Kings, John Bracey: Hi Ben, I wanted to shoot you and the PLC a quick report on how my first year of teaching 7th and 8th grade Latin with CI has been going. Overall it has been incredible. My 7th graders have never had word of Latin

Diane continues: Some terms: Pinyin: phonetic writing system developed in the 1950’s to show standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese characters; its goal was to help Chinese understand each other’s speech and standardize “Mandarin.” It’s very scientific – once you know what sound some letters represent, that’s the whole set of syllables available in Chinese: about

My thoughts on MovieTalk change by the hour: I just don’t like the idea of presenting incomprehensible or partially comprehensible input to my students. It would be fine if we had 24/7 to teach them but we don’t. There is incomprehensibility that comes with MT, and that vagueness of the text to my students has

An important text (link below) on MovieTalk by Jody Noble, written and published a year ago here, describes MT in a way that merits discussion, just to make sure that we are all talking about the same thing. Is what Jody wrote here indeed what we are doing in our MT classes? Specifically, I seek

Sometimes I am truly amazed at the speed at which some teachers move deeply into this way of teaching. This report from Laura Cenci is an example: Hello TPRS community! I hope you will forgive my presumptuousness in doing a really LONG therapeutic download here, but this thread [ed. note: the one on MovieTalk] has