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.

I am just making a comment from today into a post here so that I can reference it from a category. We have been talking about lesson plans for iFLT in Breckenridge next week and I posted this in response to something that jen and Dori said: jen you said: …you will be able to

The quote below puts into perspective something I have been trying to articulate for twelve years now, but haven’t been able to find the right words and thank you Kath for these words: ….there’s something metaphysical about this approach…. it’s almost mindfulness of language. It is throwing away the shackles of the analytical, conscious, right/wrong,

Kristen wrote as a comment I’m and just posting it to make sure everybody reads it: Hi all, I’ve just recently returned from taking students to Costa Rica and have finally made the decision to go to the iflt conference.  I’m so excited!  I’m wondering if anyone is still looking for a roomate?

If anyone is so inclined, I would like some feedback on the finalized lesson plan notes I have written for iFLT. Diana has asked the presenters for any materials that might help clarify what we model in our morning classes with the kids, and so I wrote the notes below. If teachers attending were to

This from skip. Discussion about the possibilities is welcome: 1.  I would like to bring a few children’s books to those in the group that still haven’t received any.  (not sure how to arrange that but I think it would be nice to use the NTPRS conference to distribute those – it would save postage

Many of us begin the year with the Circling with Balls activity. This activity builds high levels of trust and fun immediately and aids us in personalizing the room and norming the class in terms of classroom discipline and the rules (if you are not familiar with the Classroom Rules poster find it at www.benslavic.com/TPRS

Job Posting   Job Title:    ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS Organization:  Canadian Language Institute Location:  Montequinto, Sevilla, SPAIN Open to Teachers:   experience in the application of TPRS and CI based approaches Start Date:  September 17, 2012 Canadian Language Institute, a TPRS friendly language school, in Montequinto, Sevilla, Spain has openings for TPRSers to teach

It greatly concerns me when I hear teachers coming up with all sorts of new ideas and activities about comprehensible input. CI is not complicated and when we make it so we destroy its value. We must let go of the idea of even being teachers.   Teachers have a failed track record in languages. We

Here in the summer I find that I am getting some good insights as I step back far enough from my work as a language teacher to see a few more things in the larger picture. I expressed some of those thoughts in the last post and extend that thinking a bit more here in this post. The

This posted appeared here originally in March of 2008. Here it is again: Is it possible that TPRS may exist someday in forms that are unrecognizable to those who originally designed it? Could a lack of consensus for what TPRS is eventually lead to its disappearance from the scene? Could it be that the term