Here is a link to a discussion started by Melissa over on the Forum: www.benslavic.com/blog/forum/general-discussion-1/new-to-tprsci It’s worth a read.

I got this from John to share with the group: Ben, I wanted to pass along some excerpts from a discussion taking place on my Latin-Best Practices listserv. Justin Slocum Bailey is a teacher in LA who is not only a Latin whiz, but he is rigorous in his study and application of progressive language

Our man in Scotland, who teaches Gaelic, reports in with a situation: Hi Ben – I can feel a storm brewing over here since I implemented jGR and could really use some of the PLCs insights and suggestions. Long story short, a number of the middle school age kids that I teach did not get

Susan Gross once said that she made up over 200 excellent games for her students during her career and not one of them contributed to her students learning French. Of course, she had not heard of comprehensible input during those years when she was the self-described “Queen of Games”. We don’t put games on this

Chris hid this excellent report from us back in the Forum but I found it and brought it out here as a post: Ok folks so today Adriana, Marie-Luce and I presented to colleagues at District languages Pro-D. (We were just down the hall from the “lit circles en français” workshop where Very Smart Teachers

Here is a report from the field taken from a comment from Robert Harrell this morning and thank you Robert. I am going to make a category for Geoguessr.com, not because it is one, but because it’s a quick way to find what you wrote about it if a teacher wants to remember the term

Last September our group member Joe Eye in New Jersey shared his experience with a direct frontal attack on him by others in his school building. Below it is a very important position statement and possible response to such an attack, provided to the group by Robert and thank you Robert. Here is Joe’s a repost of

From Diane: Anyone new here interested in joining us? Hello! Here’s our next meeting time and location. Please bring questions and ideas you’d like to discuss related to teaching with Comprehensible Input. We’ll have discussion, demonstrations, and possibly break into smaller groups related to age or language taught. Several people have indicated interest in coaching…

We don’t talk much about using TPRS/CI instruction with really young kids. But some of us teach at those levels, certainly we have Eric and others. Here is a question that I hope gets lots of answers: …how can I make this method work for kindergarten? I only have 45 minutes with each class once

We all tend to think of ourselves as doing something that is vastly different from the way things used to be done in language teaching. And yes, the way we teach the language is indeed light years away from the old ways. But John Piazza reminds us that in our dealings with teachers who are

Today I was timing some PQA (I ask the class for ten and fifteen minute bursts of not a single word of English) and my timer person put it on an iPad and faced the screen toward me on his desk. It was so cool to be able to just look at the time left

Carol sent me and other presenters this tonite. I think those rooms are going to go fast: Our conference hotel is the Residence Inn by Marriott. All rooms are suites with full kitchens. Check our conference hotel page for details about rooms: http://tprstorytelling.com/conference/travel-lodging/ Suites vary and can accommodate 3 or 5 people. $158 to $208