Honoring the Cycle
I am just making a comment from today into a post here so that I can reference it from a category. We have been talking about lesson plans for iFLT in Breckenridge next week and I posted this in response
Circling with Balls Ramble
Many of us begin the year with the Circling with Balls activity. This activity builds high levels of trust and fun immediately and aids us in personalizing the room and norming the class in terms of classroom discipline and the
The Plaine! The Plaine! 2
Here in the summer I find that I am getting some good insights as I step back far enough from my work as a language teacher to see a few more things in the larger picture. I expressed some of those
The Plaine! The Plaine!
This posted appeared here originally in March of 2008. Here it is again: Is it possible that TPRS may exist someday in forms that are unrecognizable to those who originally designed it? Could a lack of consensus for what TPRS is
We Are Brave
If you are like me, you reflect on what you do in class sometimes more than you actually teach. It's part of the change. It's the dismantling of the old by means of allowing room in our minds and in our teaching
They Sense Your Truth
If your truth is connected to making them conjugate verbs and memorize lists, they sense that somewhere in what you are presenting to them, on some level somewhere, they are being shamed. Yes, doing those activities in your classroom is
Ardythe on Acquisition Theory (repeat post)
In January Kate was called out in a post observation email by an administrator who doesn't yet understand how people acquire languages. (That is an understatement.) We asked for help from the group, not just academically in terms of pro-Krashen statements of
Ardythe on Acquisition Theory
Last week Kate was called out in a post observation email by an administrator who doesn't yet understand how people acquire languages. (That is an understatement.) We asked for help from the group, not just academically in terms of pro-Krashen statements of
The New PQA
PQA - step 1 of TPRS - is the foundation of our fluency house not just in the form of rebar on each floor, but it is literally the foundation of steps 2 and 3, of the entire structure. To understand the
From a Colleague
I was discussing with my coordinator (at the university) my ideas that using tprs could help us with our lower level retention issues, particularly with minority students. She always wants to "see the research" on things, wants data, wants statistics.