As we often do at certain times of the year, let’s take a little break. We’ve been working hard, teaching hard, finding things out about ourselves and this method, sometimes gnashing our teeth and sometimes, when riding the wave of a good story, wondering why everybody doesn’t teach this way. We’re doing good things. Deep breath. Time to rest. Enjoy the season. Let’s crank it back up in a week or two.
For new people, you can search anything you may be working on in your own training and practice (recommended: untargeted/nontargeted CI) in the search bar. There are also the categories but they are less efficient in finding things than the search bar. There are 6,695 articles and 49, 086 comments, so no lack of things to read. Bless us all, for we are working to make children’s lives happier, and I can personally think of no better métier than that.
In fact, it might be a good time to repost the link below, in case we are down and in need of a pep talk. We can and we will make it simpler. We can take this man’s example of simplicity to keep our eyes on the prize of simplicity in stories, so that we can have something to look forward to in 2017 – simple stories that the kids love that require a fraction of the effort of the old model. By making this work simpler, we solve the problem of TPRS:
http://www.fredrogers.org/frc/news/mister-rogers-message-those-who-grew-watching-his-show