Angie has kindly sent the materials she used for her 85 min. demo/job interview last week. If you remember, the whole lesson was a comprehensible input lesson but was focused on the seasons, so she couldn’t get tagged by any traditional teachers on the interview team who might claim that she wasn’t working with thematic […]

We have three reports on “what worked” when having to teach classes that are not our own. Obviously, if people come into our classrooms and our kids are properly trained, most of us would do stories. But the point came up recently about what to do (probably not stories) with kids whose classrooms we must

This is from Eric Spindler: Ben, We will be having a couple of openings at Galesburg High School and I would like to see some CI/TPRS people apply. Galesburg is about 1300 students and located in western Illinois between the Quad Cities and Peoria. I am supported and the school does a good job of

Ben – Could you put this out on the blog? A former student is looking for a college online intermediate 2 French class. If anyone knows of one, I would appreciate the info. Chill

In Brian’s video, Jason noticed a singing bowl. Brian explained to Jason: Yes that is a singing bowl! I really want to integrate mindfulness training in my class, and that was one way of doing it. I tap it three times while we breathe deeply and then we are silent by the third. Sometimes I

This from Jeff Brickler: Ben, I have been thinking about how to make it easier on a teacher who teaches all levels, specifically Latin, German, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. I have a hypothesis that I’d like people to hammer on for a bit before I decide to move forward next year. Here it is. Many

I know that both Greg and Michele did demos with eighth graders today, Greg as part of an interview process and Michele because somebody asked her to. I would like to get reports on how those went. My idea is that if Angie can write up a template of the things she did for her

Greg Stout is going to be working all day today to plan a demo, part of an interview process, for tomorrow (Thursday), so we need to act fast on this. Michele also has a demo tomorrow – her request was posted a few days ago here. Those who are willing and have time to respond

We were privileged to have video from Sean in Chicago and now here is some classroom footage from Brian in Detroit: Ben, I know I have been quite silent on your blog but I am still trying every day to improve my TPRS skills. I am going to at BOTH trainings this summer to help

This is from our PLC member Mark Knowles, Director of the Anderson Language and Technology Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder: Hi Ben, I wanted to post something on an experiment that occurred at CU-Boulder this past semester that I would call a CI and Listening Comprehension mash-up. I am very excited by

Hi Ben, I’m going to do two short class demos for a school this Thursday. The school offers Russian to every student at every level, K-8. This sounds great, except that new kids can come into the classes at any time through the years, and each class learns together by grade. That means that there

I got this from Mary Beth today but if you want it you have to act now because it is a one day only deal: Hi Ben – There is a FREE kindle book available today – “Teaching to the Child”. I thought you might want to share it on the blog. MB