Q. In your opinion, what is critical mass for the Word Chunk Team Game? I need 3 judges, right? Will the activity work if there are only 2 or 3 teams of 3? A. I like the big classes for the game. That way the teams don’t get in each others’ faces. I would say […]
My son takes French at Ken Caryl Middle School in Jefferson County, CO. We are sitting on the back porch of my house after school. I am writing this and he is doing his homework. He has to do four pages for French. Page 1 is a word search activity for colors. And there is
Do not bring work home. Life is short. You will regret it one day. You will want all that time with loved ones back one day after you have awakened to the fact that teachers have bought a bill of goods about time spent doing school work at home that is dangerous to them, to
For those using a quiz writer, Ben Lev came up with a nice little set of instructions for that student. Here they are for those interested: Querido/a Quiz Writer, ¡Gracias por escribir el examen pequeño! • 1. Please write 10 statements in Spanish about the facts of the story. • 2. Use the new vocabulary
If anybody is in a fight in their building over pacing guides, it may help to print this out: The differences in philosophy between Comprehensible Input Instruction (CI) and traditional language education are: • CI is a student-driven methodology. It responds to the linguistic needs of the students at any given time. This makes it
We should answer this as a group in the comment fields below. It concerns us all: Hi Ben – It’s that time of the year when administrators are beginning to ask teachers to turn in Measures of Student Success that demonstrate student growth. Pueblo City School (District 60) implements the RANDA system in which teachers
John reports. Those on the PLC who go back a number of years will note a stark contrast between this report and those of five or six years ago: Hey Ben, In general news, I’m helping to jumpstart the long dormant bay area CI support group that collapsed when Diane Grieman and Jody Noble left
If anyone has any 2018 updates to this list please let me know: Recent State Teachers of the Year: Sarah Breckley – Wisconsin Teacher of the Year 2017 Paul Kirschling – Colorado WL Teacher of the Year 2017 Sabrina Janczak – Colorado WL Teacher of the Year 2016 Grant Boulanger – Minnesota WL Teacher of
Taron has a question for the group: “If you had to list the top five skills/ characteristics that a NTCI teacher should exhibit in their classroom, how would you do that (Maybe SLOW, calm, command of the target language … etc)?”
Right about now we can do something to really prevent communications problems with parents in the future: we can send an email to the parents of our underperforming students. This would only apply to anyone currently using an interpersonal skills rubric of the kind described in the Big CI Book and on my website –
John continues: Already I can see how it is transforming my relationship to families: I am taking charge of the energy, and sending tons of positive vibes their way, positive about their child, and positive about the work I am doing with them everyday. Now I no longer dread checking my email. Instead, almost daily
A repost from a few summers ago: Dr. Beniko Mason is a professor at Shitennoji University in Osaka, Japan. She has known and worked with Dr. Krashen for over twenty years and fully embraces his Comprehensible Input Hypothesis. She is looked upon by many as the Dr. Krashen of Asia. In Agen last summer (see pic
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