I haven’t shared the WCTG in a long time with teachers since it is a Book 2 thing and most teachers are still trying to absorb the gems in Book 1. But I have to say that, after doing a coaching session on it today, I had forgotten how truly magnificent it is for teachers […]
The old days of “challenging” language students is over. Our field is challenging enough for them and for us. Those days were part of something in language education that didn’t work, and so good riddance. The research tells us that if it isn’t effortless for them, then it doesn’t align with the research about how
Let’s say it’s a year from now and it’s a Thursday morning in March of next year (2023), and you’ve been using the Star in your language instruction for about a year now, having signed up for both the Book 1 and 2 trainings a year ago back in March of 2022 with great results,
Hello, Ben! We are in Germany near Berlin at my sister’s friend’s house. Everything is good. Waiting to see who’s available to drive with me to Portugal. We were blessed to get out on time. We had a sleepover in Vinnits, – it was calm at the time but 2 days later it was bombed
I’m doing two trainings this spring on the Ultimate CI Books 1 and 2 and the new StarSystem™ approach: Book 1: April 2 – May 7 Book 2: May 14 – June 18 These trainings are all on Saturdays from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. MT. The cost per training is $189.95 for non-patrons. Patreon members
I’ve been working with Marcel who is a teacher of English in Morocco with primarily intermediate students from Russia. We may be nearing some kid of much-needed breakthrough in reaching this population of language learners. I think we’re in the process of “purifying” some of the research on this. I won’t go into it here.
Where did the fears around building stories come from? They originated in the early days of TPRS when Blaine Ray could and did create a story with seemingly no effort, but nobody else could. Any TPRS old-timers reading this know exactly what I mean. It got so bad that whenever people showed up at a
I just had a sad thought about those AP type students we teach. We teach them all sorts of boring stuff, the stuff that they “need to know” for the AP exam, and then expect them to be able to enjoy the language learning experience. But how can they enjoy our AP classes when all
This is a passage from a rewrite of the Ultimate CI Book that I am currently doing for Teacher’s Discovery: If you worked diligently through the Ultimate CI Book 1, building tableaux from student cards, etc., you may have noticed how each questioning level (QL2 through QL4) requires only an image plus some “starter” sentences
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More from Victoria: Well we’ve been driving since 7 am, it’s 4 pm now. Skylynn is getting restless, the rest of the kiddos fell asleep, thank goodness – haha! Mi sister, the mom of other two teenagers here, is coming to the border from Germany to meet us then we all go to Portugal. You’re
The latest from Victoria and the Three Angels: Hello! We left Kremenchuk 2 hours ago. Should be arriving to West Ukraine in like 12 hours plus huge traffic near the border. Everything is fine. There are checkpoints here and there, Ukrainian soldiers stop the cars. And of course me having an American car with an
