Mateo and his brother Manny were at the iFLT conference. Mateo wanted to take French but is only in fourth grade and so was too young for the only French offerings by me which were for older kids. But we got him in anyway. So there was Mateo on Tuesday morning sitting in class with sixth through tenth graders. […]
If you are going to be in one of my sessions at iFLT, please read the plans below: At the iFLT conference we demonstrate comprehension based instruction by using classes of actual students. So the lesson plans offered below are intended to allow me to model the technical aspects of comprehension based instruction for about
Five bios in one week. This is fantastic. But there are still some out there who have not sent them in! Thank you Michele! I have been teaching for about 15 years of “solid” experience in Oklahoma, Ohio (adult ed), Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, and now back in Ohio again. I have taught K-12. Most of
A fourth bio! When it rains it pours. Welcome, Kristen! We want more. Send your bios in! Hi all, My name is Kristen Anglemyer and I teach middle and high school Spanish in a very small rural school in Wisconsin. I’ve been teaching for 9 years and always tried to follow the Wisconsin based thematic
I would like to ask the group for any recommendations of really simple stories that I can use in the iFLT conference. I need three for the three days of instuction next week and so far I only have “A Fight”. Honestly, I think that the kids can get those more complex stories by Anne even
Yea, here’s another bio! My little speech worked! Actually Angela just joined today, but I’ll take it as a good sign that she sent her bio in right away. Maybe we’ll get some more. Thanks Angela! Hi Ben, I wasn’t sure how to do a bio on the PLC blog, so I thought that email
My wish is that this membership community be private to protect it from instrusion. I know that sounds a bit defensive, but I can cite two instances where colleagues joined this group for less than honorable reasons (to spy on a colleague) and were ferreted out and kicked out, one by pure luck and the other after a
Nothing exists in concrete form that talks about how to use CI/TPRS at the upper levels. I do remember Melanie started a discussion about 8 months ago about this and I suggested that reading be the central focus of any upper level class but I just don’t have the experience with TPRS/CI at the upper
One of our biggest mistakes when doing stories is to get too creative and leave the story line that we have been given in the script. Stories work when you keep the train on the tracks. Yes, change the cars (the underlined variables) out, but don’t get the train off the tracks. When you do
In the comment made into an article below, Michele offers perhaps the most powerful way of dealing with tough kids yet described on this site: Let me preface this by saying that I always tell parents at the beginning of the year that they are welcome to visit at any time because they will improve
[Note: there is a thread on coaching here but it appears later in the flow of comments. Just FYI. Look for comments by skip to find it.] So you can see that if someone comments and it is something I think is really important for the group I turn the comment into an article here.
