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For a language teacher to not be in touch with the concepts put forth by Dr. Krashen and Dr. Beniko Mason and the other comprehensible input experts carries a high price tag in terms of the actual results we get from our students. This
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Our book on classroom management continues to be written here on a day-to-day way in this, our seventh installment: What Are Our Goals? What are our classroom management goals? What might we imagine a well- functioning CI classroom to look and
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Leaving Vampspooder and returning now to our progressively expanding new book on classroom management: A Fly in the Ointment As the proficiency movement and comprehension-based instruction have moved steadily forward, one glaring problem has arisen: classroom management has become more and more of a
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A Brilliant Step Forward Prior to Blaine Ray’s application in the form of TPRS in the 1990’s of Dr. Stephen Krashen’s groundbreaking research, foreign languages classes at all levels from the elementary to the university level were mostly taught from the textbook. But Krashen’s
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Our new book on CM is starting up its engines: The General Plan This book consists of three parts. In the first part we take an in-depth look at key points and strategies made in previous books I’ve written. The first part of the
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Here is a possible title for this new book on classroom management: A Natural Approach to Management in the Comprehensible Input Classroom (NATMAN) Below is the beginning of the book. Each succeeding post labeled "Classroom Management" with a number attached to it
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Everything published here scrolls out and eventually gets lost in the past, unless we are good with the search bar. In order to prevent the loss of these upcoming articles on classroom management, I'm going to write them up in
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Perhaps the best time to work on our classroom management skills is not during the year but in the summer. We must at some point when we are not in the middle of the fray take a step back to
Read, Write and Translate
Bryan Whitney offers perhaps the best bail out move I have ever seen, better than dictee maybe because that only lasts ten to fifteen minutes, posted below. I call it Write Their Little Butts Off. For those who don't know what a Bail
Broken Record Technique
A repost from a year ago. It may help someone: The steps below, which we have been talking a lot here lately in terms of perhaps one of the best classroom management moves of all time. The Language Coordinator of a