Report from the Field – Eric Herman
Eric shares: Check out the high school Spanish 1 Honors level course description at the high school my kids feed into. It's your stereotypical textbook course. Keep vomit bucket nearby. SPANISH 1 5 Credits Full Year Honors/College I Prerequisite: According to 8th grade placement exam, or a
Robert Harrell’s Grammar Quiz
A post appeared here a few days ago on how it feels to not understand anything in a grammar class: http://www.benslavic.com/blog/how-does-it-feel-to-not-understand/ Jim then reminded us of Robert Harrell's grammar quiz for teachers, which can be given to teachers who teach using the old
Paul Kirschling on Traditional Teachers
Here are some exerts from a recent comment here by Paul Kirschling of Denver Public Schools, for your edification and enjoyment:
Paul Kirschling on the Grammar Ogre
I got this in an email from a group member today:
Don’t Change Traditional/Grammar Based Scope and Sequence Models
You read that title right. Why do I say that? Well, for one thing, it would get Paul Kirschling to write a comment here, and a good one. There is Tina's great model for a CI kind of Scope and
Grammar Pop Ups
I suggest that we never do grammar pop ups during stories. The unconscious focus on the language gets interrupted when we do that. We don't need hand comprehension checks either. Search that term for an article on that. We do need "What
Steven Ordiano on Scope and Sequence
Steven shares on Scope and Sequence: I want to say this to my fellow teachers in my district plus admin: My students can meet and SURPASS all of my California world language standards with TPRS/CI according to their levels. You want S and
Ten Minutes of Grammar Per Day?
The idea of CI teachers teaching grammar for ten minutes a day was floated by Zach Al Moreno of the American Embassy School in New Delhi. It was suggested as a way to placate the grammar instructors and honor the
Native Speakers
We have tons of articles on strategies to engage misplaced (by advisement) native speakers in our classes. As we have said many times here, we would not place a chemist in a beginning chemistry class. The best strategy we have for
My Knees Almost Buckled Under Me
Not everyone understands that we don't use word walls in order to teach those certain words that appear in that list. We use them as a fertile source of verbs and other parts of speech to use during class, in