I was told by someone that this group is probably the most radical of those who practice TPRS because they are willing to pay for the training. I tend to agree with that assessment. The idea of a radical group is attractive to me. We should get “TPRS Commando” hats and wear them around. To master […]
Hi, My name is Maggie Smith. I teach at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT. I love TPRS. I decided to try it in the late 90’s after seeing the bashing it took on FLTeach. I had amazing results, just as Blaine kept saying. I taught k-8 French, and knew I had hit
Story scripts are written in the present, usually. However, we ask the story in the past. So, when doing the very first part of step 1 PQA, establishing meaning, I suggest that we write down and teach the structures in the past. That way, the students will understand each structure when it shows up in the story. Each
Libby writes in her bio (we have 34 now and are approaching the half way mark for everybody getting into the Group Members category for reasons expressed in the past few weeks here): I never wanted to be a teacher. I graduated with a degree in French and a minor in Psychology. My parents pressured
Here is Skip Crosby’s bio. Skip is doing much for TPRS in New England and this blog site would not be the same without his presence on it: My TPRS journey began 6 years ago after attending a Blaine Ray conference sponsored by Alice Yates in Kingfield, ME. The fact that I could read the
I have made the membership changes I intended to. Now, most members are paying members. The group is much smaller, back down around 75, from the bloated group we had become of almost 200. I am still waiting for bios. Ideally, we would have 80 bios in the “Group Members” category, we would know each
A Reminder: Susie Gross Workshop in Maine Oct 6-7. Don’t miss this chance to see and learn from the best! More info and a registration form at: http://www.classjump.com/m/mainetprs/
Bryce, according to Diana, the LEAP Appendix will make no sense to people without the overall LEAP Framework, which actually is online on the DPS site: http://leap.dpsk12.org/ Below is the DRAFT of the Appendix which is not official so you need to know that, but here it is. I am including these longer texts in
I know I just posted this a few days ago but I want to post it here again. I think it is important: Energetic classes with high talent of about 25 kids (less is too few and more – above 30 – is too many), could conceivably spend all year on circled PQA. When classes
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Thank you for sending me as emails certain things you write if the message is too important to scroll out like regular comments. We have a bunch of those right now, so this is just to inform you that, even though the queue is jammed, I will get your email into blog post form as soon as I
