I am about 5 weeks from finishing up my first year as a new CI teacher and it has been a great journey. It is a beautiful thing to hear my Chinese 1 kids telling their friends that Chinese class is fun and that partly explains why enrollment in Chinese has just increased from 63 […]

Here’s Melissa’s bio: Hola Ben, I am a Spanish and French teacher at GAMP High School (Girard Academic Music Program) in South Philadelphia.  I teach Spanish and French, levels 1 and 2 to freshmen and sophomores, as well as 8th grade Spanish.  I attended Washington University in St. Louis and majored in Spanish.  While working

Some of us had the opportunity to work with Bernard last summer in Las Vegas. He is the real deal. Thank you for the bio, Bernard: Ben, Je me présente… Born in the heart of Africa, I’ve lived a wandering life as an army brat until my parents settled in the South of France. Along

Here is Alan’s bio all the way from China: Hi there, I have been teaching ESL or lately telling tall tales, not sure which yet, to grades 1-5 in a primary school in Shanghai China. It has been about 5 months since I began experimenting with TPRS and so far the kids are loving it,

Bob Patrick, in a private email thread among the Latinists about sharing video, or not, with the Latin Best Practices (LBP) online group, memorably said: When Latinteach was the main/only venue for Latin teachers, I often would share what I was trying and urging others to try there.  I never shared a video of me

A nice simple script from James. Note that James leaves the variables blank whereas other script authors like Jim and Anne put in underlined names. It doesn’t matter. The Errand wants (something) in order to find goes/comes back returns _ wants a _. _ says to _, “I want _. Find _ for me. After you

In response to Angie’s question about my comment yesterday that CI can’t work in classes, I had written: The fact is CI can’t work in classrooms as per Robert’s explanation but we are going to make it work anyway. It’s like the WWI fighters in the trenches knowing that they had a small chance of

Good news from David Maust. I have been fortunate enough to have been instructed in Latin by David and I have always like to use the term real deal when I see a real CI teacher in action. So yeah, David is to be congratulated for this award because he is the real deal. Here is his

Margie in West Virginia has a question for the group and together we should be able to cobble together in the comment fields here a lot of stuff she can use: Ben, I’m hoping that the PLC can help me with something:  I have been asked by the WVDE to help develop an online professional

One of our group members has a couple of questions and I always like to include the group in such discussions. Please chime in: Hey Ben, I have a couple of questions that might be completely stupid, however. They have just come up during my attempts at using TPRS. 1. When choosing structures, is there

Charlotte (Canada) has a question: Hi Ben, I have a technology question for the group.  Our school just bought a class set of Blackberry Playbooks. (not impressed)  I would like to buy one ipad for my class to use as a document camera.  I have to justify this expenditure and I was looking for more

I want to keep the Latin discussion front and center. I am beginning to see that there is some unique stuff going on right now. Churning beneath the waters. In a small part of the ocean. That few have noticed yet. But will. There are about seven vocal Classicists in our group and they are impacting how people view and relate to