Spanish Positions in CA

Clarice is out there in Northern CA  kicking up the TCI all over place and they need 2.66 TCI Spanish teachers right away. Here is the information: TPRS Spanish Positions Open for the 2013-2014 School Year Oakmont High School, in the Sacramento area of Northern California, is searching for two full-time and one part-time Spanish […]

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A Conversation with Contee

Warning – long post: I received an email from Blaine’s publisher, Contee Seely, in which he says: “I would like to hear or read your opinion about a significant question. Below you have this in the signature of your email: …it is very hard to create compelling messages when the hidden agenda is the relative

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Welcome Letter

Now that we know exactly who is in the group, and who has and who has not sent in a bio, I don’t want to get behind that train again. So I am going to ask for a bio from every new member when they sign up. In order to make that happen, I will send new members the

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Crystal Barragan

Hi Ben, Here’s my bio. Sorry for the delay! Growing up, teaching language was not part of the plan. I was a smart hispanic kid in a tough, urban school district with big goals and ambitions. My parents are both from Mexico, and though I acquired English at a very young age, Spanish was the

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Guy Van Der Veen

I’ve known Guy through conferences for years. A class act. He doesn’t post a lot but here is what we could call a combination Bio and Report from the Field. He is in SoCal. Thanks Guy and will see you in San Diego in a few months. This is my third year of TPRS/CI. My

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On Parallel Novels

I always felt as if I didn’t have time to do a parallel novel. But now I realize that the term is misleading. We can spin out into a parallel scene while reading a novel, or we might be able to set up a parallel set of events for more than one scene, possibly up to one

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In Your Face 1

I was coming back on the train from a Denver Nuggets basketball game and saw four teenage girls huddled together and a guy was staring at them. They knew it. It was one of those things you see on trains. I wrote the idea to Matava and she created this below. I named it and

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Question on Presenting

Hi Ben, I know you are busy with updating members on the PLC.  There is no hurry on this, but I am getting increasing pleas to do an inservice for the German teachers of my province and the neighbouring one.  I keep talking about TPRS and they want to know what I am talking about. 

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