Leigh Anne sent in an important article: Hi Ben – The data that our brains love CI (they call it ‘Implicit Learning’) is all there in black and white. This is from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21861686 J Cogn Neurosci. 2012 Apr;24(4):933-47. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00119. Epub 2011 Aug 23. Explicit and implicit second […]

I have copied below the Denver Public Schools Appendix to the World Language LEAP Document. The LEAP acronym stands for Leading Effective Academic Practices. Search “DPS LEAP” for more information. Sometimes we refer to it as the Framework for Effective Teaching. It has a lot of teachers freaked out. If they don’t do what the document says

We share so many ideas in this PLC and so we get to learn from each other. Here is a cool idea from Carla: Hi Ben, There’s a tally app. It’s called Tally, and it’s in the IOS app store. Still free right now. I thought people might like it for tallying structures. You can

Here is still another missive I got from Bob Patrick, but this one doesn’t talk about Latin; it talks about the Role of the Teacher: The Role of the Teacher A teacher, out of compassion and love, seeing that somebody is suffering, gives a path. But each individual has to walk on the path. There

Here is the other missive I have wanted to publish from Bob Patrick. It describes a variation on Jason Fritze’s “Running Dictation”. Kind of a Latin version. Love the addition of the “Help Desk” and the scoring option: Here is an activity that I created out of several pieces of other things which I have

I said in an earlier comment today that I can’t keep up with the Latinists. Between Bob in Atlanta/Athens and John in San Francisco and David Maust in L.A. and Dan Navar (I can’t tell if he is in SoCal or still in GA) and now there is Michael in Memphis and many others, I

Here is Teri’s bio: I studied French because I loved the language and I wanted to travel and live in France.  I never had any intention of teaching it.  It was always difficult for me to learn and I never had great success, but I loved it and persevered.  I survived a year abroad in

This bio is from Michael: Ben, I joined the group in May, I believe. I teach Latin at Westminster Academy in Memphis, Tennessee. I heard about this blog from Bob, John, et al at the Latin Best Practices List. This year I teach Latin 3 (in addition to Ancient History), but I have taught all

Here is Julia’s bio: My name is Julia Lo. I teach Russian at Tower House School, London, UK. I also have private students, both adults and children. Though my original degree was in languages, I worked in Marketing and IT for a few years. Only after having my first child and starting to teach him

Dear Ben, I wanted you and the other group members to be the first to know about the 2014 edition of the Agen TPRS Workshop. Teri and Lynnette and I have settled on the dates of July 8th-12th. We are also offering a three day immersion experience for French teachers Thursday through Saturday, July 3rd-5th,

This past weekend on the forum Megan asked about essential questions that she had to provide her administrators with. I made these suggestions: 1. Can I understand (name of language you teach) by listening to it? 2. Do I need to read something to learn (the language you teach)? – on this one it would

Here is Carly’s bio and thank you Carly: Hi! My name is and I am a middle school French teacher at IS383 in Bushwick, Brooklyn. I learned about TPRS from a presentation at a workshop I went to last spring. After an hour with the presenter I read a whole story and answered ten questions