There is another Ben in our group so now we have Ben Lev and me and now Ben Orwin from Arizona: Ben, I have not been too active on the PLC, but I do appreciate the chance to hear people’s successes, trials and ideas when it comes to Comprehensible Input. Here is my bio: My […]

Here is a bio from Jamie in Arizona: My name is Jamie Kronwald and I teach at Mesa Prep in AZ. I teach high school Spanish 9th-12th grade. I began comprehension based teaching when, after my first year of teaching, my students didn’t remember the concepts I had lectured them on the year before. (They remembered

Here’s Steve’s bio: I work at Del Oro High School in Loomis, Ca (Sacramento area). I teach Spanish 1 and 2. I became interested in comprehension based teaching when I learned the difference between learning and acquisition. I’ve been to a few conferences and workshops on TPR/TPRS and I’m currently reading a couple of Ben’s

Hi Ben, I just logged on to the site for the first time in a few months. Life got too crazy for a bit. As a middle school teacher, I only get together with my overall department a few times a year.  But good news – this time, one of the new hires at the

I’m Liz Hughes Waddick.  I teach at Breckenridge Elementary and Upper Blue Elementary schools in Breckenridge, CO.  I have been using CI since my first year of teaching in 2005.  I went to a Blaine Ray workshop in Chicago during the summer of 2005 with Karen Rowan, Blaine Ray, and Donna Tatum-Johns.  After that conference

In dictée, the importance of absolute silence from the very beginning to the end of the process, which lasts fifteen minutes at most, is not properly appreciated by most teachers, and that is a gross understatement. On this point, Robert Harrell has written: Usually I am able to impress the class sufficiently with the seriousness

Anyone working with kids who think that making a mistake is a big horrible egregious thing, here is an interesting story from a teacher – who is not in the PLC – in Japan. We were talking via email about how to reach Japanese kids and this teacher said: “The PSA tactic makes a lot of sense,

Another Latin teacher in the group! Here is Mark Hazard’s bio: I have been teaching Latin at a public high school in Maine for the past seven years.  Before that I taught a couple of years at Cheverus in Portland, and before that I taught for about 6 years in colleges in New York and

Hi Ben, Here is my long overdue bio! My names is Bobbi (Robledo) Cress. I work in Jeffco Public Schools in Lakewood, Colorado. I am  one of the many native Californians who have made an exodus to Colorado.  I was in my 26th year of teaching, in California, when I read a testimonial on FLTeach about

Here is Dick Detwiler in PA’s bio: Jenkintown Middle/High School, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania Spanish II, III, IV, V (AP to be added soon). Here’s my bio, so that I can stay tuned, though I confess, I have not been participating as I would like to, but hope to. I have been seeking an approach to language

We have another German teacher in the group! Not only that, but this teacher is from the same state as Susan Gross, South Dakota. Here is Britt Samson’s bio: TPRS rookie (in spite of 19 years in the classroom)–I am completing my first year with TPRS and I’ll quit my job before I go back

Greg was unable to post this as a comment so here it is as a post: (First, forgive my ramblings – if I edited myself as much as I want to I would never post anything on the PLC.  One of my new year resolutions is to edit myself less and just speak my mind…)