La has the shortest first name and the longest full name in the group, by fa. We are happy to read her bio, which includes the good news about her joining another group member, Lea Ekeberg, next year. Very cool. Hi Ben, This is La from Wisconsin. Sorry I have not been very active in the group. But […]

Here is Sarah Downey’s bio from Savannah, GA: 2 years ago I decided to put the textbooks in the closet and I started to use Look I Can Talk. Even though I now know more about PQA and CI the responses I got from students where outstanding. They were describing stories by looking at illustrations,

From Holly in the Quaker state: Hi Ben, I work at the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I have been teaching French 1, 2 and 3 for about two years now. This is my first teaching position ever. When I was hired, my department head suggested I go to the

Another teacher in the Atlanta area in our group. Thanks for this bio, Aree: My name is Aree Ogir and I teach Spanish in the metro Atlanta area.  I am completing my sixth year of teaching.  I have been attempting comprehension based teaching for 5 1/2 of those years, after attending a TPRS workshop conducted

Another bio, this one from Alison in Washington: Hi everyone, This will need to be short and sweet, but will cover the basics.  I teach at a medium-sized suburban high school in Spokane, Washington.  I’ve taught all levels of French during the last 15 years.  Right now, I  teach the level one students so that

Q. Greg Stout asked: I’m trying to start using this as a break from stories, but I’m having troubled conceptualizing how I can make this last for an entire class. I think I understand how to start, but how do you all prolong L & D to keep the CI going for the whole class?

From Bob Patrick: Hey guys, It’s a sign that I am on spring break that I have time to Twitter, but I decided that each day I would put out little Tweets about C.  I follow and am followed by a lot of Latin teachers, and I want to try and put some seeds in

Here is a nice bio from Briana Livingston in Idaho:  I have been teaching Spanish in Idaho Falls, Idaho, for thirteen years. I spent the first ten years of my career teaching Spanish 1 and Spanish exploratory classes in a junior high. As I was finishing my third year of teaching, I was depressed by

Anyone new to this group – don’t be bewildered. Just click on the categories listed below and read there to start and you will stay sane. Those categories are the best and most important practical classroom ideas we have had this year, and they work really well in classrooms, in my opinion better than stories.

A great bio from Leah in the great state of Tennessee: Hi there, Ben! I hope you are well. Thank you for all your hard work on the blog! I’m only just starting to see how beneficial it can be. Here is my bio: I work at Springfield High School in Springfield, TN. It’s about

OK here’s Katherine Burke’s bio: I’m a freelance English teacher in Bangkok. I’m teaching part time. My background is as a freelance journalist and copywriter. I”m 41 and did the CELTA certificate in teaching English in 2011 in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. In January 2012 I was in Manzanillo in Mexico. I had an

Hey Everybody, Just wanted to give you another heads-up that today Ben’s iFLT workshop strand is now public. If you plan to attend iFLT and want to be one of the 30 in Ben’s workshop, sign up NOW. We opened it up to his blog people and to the people who were already registered for