Bryce Hedstrom on the Interview Process
Ben, I am still working on the Rejoinder pieces. I dug this up the other day. These are the interview questions that we asked applicants for a Spanish teaching job at my school a couple of years ago. I wrote most of
They Know the Deal
From Utah, a girl - sparkling four percenter - joined my French 1 class about two weeks ago. She had an A in her former school and, since we have been on a Susan Gross type of reading jag lately, had an A with me as
Grammar/Book Based Teaching Is Over
We would assume that the foxes guarding the hen houses, the grammar teachers who need to "cover the imperfect" (referring to what Melissa just said here), do so out of ignorance. Anyone who has experienced teaching kids a language using both
Language Activity Facilitators 7
The mind simply cannot serve two masters. The human unconscious mind is far superior, infinitely superior, in the artful process of decoding and understanding the sounds of a foreign language than is the conscious mind. It does so just by
Language Activity Facilitators 6
What our kids do when they hear a story or just do PQA is they use the vastly superior technology of the human brain to create movies of what is being said. By focusing on the message, the medium is acquired.
Language Activity Facilitators 5
When we employ comprehensible input methods. we create real learning. The process, as Krashen has shown, must be an unconscious one in listening and reading both. In both, movies are created in the mind. The process becomes conscious and analysis creeps in only
Language Activity Facilitators 2
Jim, in a different comment than the one mentioned above, posted the following blockbuster comment here yesterday morning:
Language Activity Facilitators 1
In a recent comment here, Jim Tripp said:
Anne Matava
Here is part of a recent email exchange I shared with Anne Matava. In it, Anne expresses how she has dealt with the February/March burnout - when the kids actually need a break from all the comprehensible input: Anne: I am
Suggested TCI Schedule – Assessment 1
The purpose of the suggested weekly schedule presented over the past week was to simplify the process of implementing CI in my classroom. I personally have tried so many schedules over the years that I often got confused. This confusion greatly