Hi my name is Karen W. (formerly Karen), I live in Anchorage, Alaska and this is my sixth year teaching Spanish. I never really wanted to be a Spanish teacher but it happened by coincidence and that getting a job teaching Art is impossible. I taught the traditional way for my first three years and […]

All the record keeping of names, bios, etc. is complicated. You can help by sending in a bio if you haven’t already (some are still in the queue). Send the bios to me at benslavic@yahoo.com. Also, if your membership is through a school, pls. let me know.

All the record keeping of names, bios, etc. is complicated. You can help by sending in a bio if you haven’t already (some are still in the queue). Send the bios to me at benslavic@yahoo.com. Also, if your membership is through a school, pls. let me know.

I got this from a group member: I feel like I am all over the place using verbs. Does that happen to you in the beginning? Someone said they had a pig. So then they said it was stupid (they love using that word) and it lives under Matt’s bed. … I just felt like

Charlotte sent her bio and thank you! Hello Ben, My name is Charlotte Dincher from Bremen, Germany. I have been teaching on a solid full schedule for only three years now, but I have done less hours for a long time during my studies and teacher training. I teach English and Chemistry at a German state

Below, Sabrina sheds light on the current thread about targeting structures. I add it here because it clearly expresses one side of the many-sided prism that this discussion has become. I think it is important not to try to draw conclusions here. As Dr. Krashen told me pointedly in my high school last year, he

Chris I did find a few studies Dr. Krashen sent me last year: Two Recent Studies In both cases, TPRS was compared to traditional methodology for first year Spanish as a foreign language students in high school. Varguez, K. 2009. Traditional and TPR Storytelling instrucion in beginning high school Spanish classroom. International Journal of Foreign

Robert clarifies the difference between two key words in education. We would all do well to have these terms ready in our minds for administrators/parents or whoever else wants to know. Thank you Robert: I’m not a resource specialist, but our staff has done a good job of working with us to be able to

Mary Beth asked: Why can’t these little snippets of success count as “data”? Because one thing we do have is plenty of happy customers and lots of anecdotal evidence. Robert’s response to Mary Beth’s question is worth noting and worth reading a few times at least: They can and should. The problem is that they are

I wrote this today to a building data person who has begun working with our WL team to discuss the scores from the DPS district fall pre-test. She came into our PLC yesterday without knowing the research, which prompted this long missive from me, so that our weekly department discussions with her could in the future be

I know that Bob Patrick has done work in England, and he works closely with John Piazza and David Maust and the other Latinists in our PLC to keep things together in the Latin world here in the U.S., but John in the article below is reaching out to the larger community with a question

I teach Spanish at a small (225 student) Christian high school in Portland, Oregon. When I interviewed for the job five years ago, I asked the principal what he thought of their current Spanish program. (I had observed the teacher who was leaving and found it to be a traditional textbook class.) He said he