Good News from Maine

Our PLC member Laura Avila has done something remarkable. She teaches in Maine in the same building with Anne Matava, who filed this report: My colleague Laura told me today that a former student of hers just placed into the highest Spanish class (500-level) as a freshman at the university.  Laura works harder than anyone

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Reflection Question

I have a question for those using jGR. It’s really just a reflection question because each of us do this work differently. Here it is: Can cCWB obviate the need to use jGR? For me, when I  circle “Juan dances” for the entire class period, always using the verb in every single thing I say, I find that

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TPRS vs. Georgia 20

This is the last in the series of posts about the Georgia Foreign Language tenets. Gary Null has been doing his thing promoting natural and wholistic ways of healing the body for about thirty years now. All through the years there was a feeling in Gary’s message, and in the country as a whole, that

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TPRS vs. Georgia 19

Panel 20: Maintain open communication about the program and student progress among teachers, administrators, and the general public. Over my 32 years in the classroom, I have never met a more secretive, closed door policy group of educators than foreign language teachers, as a general comment. Furthermore, I have been observed countless times by administrators who had limited

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