Tina’s best friend in Portland runs a high school graphic design slash print shop in Portland and they’re working on T shirts for our fundraiser for our CI Posse booth at ACTFL. We wish we could use it on a tee shirt but we think Disney might get us for it. But it’s a cool […]
The sequence described in the poster below starts with the creation of an image, and as we know there are two ways to create an image, one with the class (class created image – CCI – or one word image), the other by individuals (individually created image – ICC). I was asked which of the
Tina and I simplified the star sequence poster. Those using it will be happy with how simple it is:
I got this question today, and provided a makeshift answer, since the problem won’t be resolved until our Alisa writes her book: Daniel Salinero wrote: I’m really enjoying your book. On page 32 you mentioned that most of us only have three or four hours per week with our students. This book is probably geared
If you have the new book, there is an addition to the first chapter. It was requested by Teacher’s Discovery*. Here is the addition. It’s the new page 11: Meeting the Students Where They Actually Are There has been a lot of recent discussion in the World Language teaching community about performance assessments that ask
Your body/voice are your most important instruments in this work. Learn to play the instrument in the CI orchestra that you’ve been given. This is Performance Skills 101. You have to do CI in a way that reflects the instrument that you have been given. Your instrument is yours and no one else has it.
I got this from Alisa today: Sean Lawlor and family just bought the house next-door to mine! He and his wife are teachers; my husband and I are teachers. Can you say summer BBQ? Now that is a good way to work on our mental health in this difficult new field we work in – just
More good news from Chicago! I got this from Alisa today – Sean Lawlor and family just bought the house next-door to mine! He and his wife are teachers; my husband and I are teachers. Can you say summer BBQ? Now that is a good way to work on our mental health in this difficult new
Julia is doing the spring protocol that Tina and I describe in A Natural Approach to the Year. She’s working with the student storybook projects. Here is her report and, below it, the pages pasted in from the book that describe the details of how to do the project. Hi Ben – The kids are
From Greg in Chicago: Hi Ben, I know part of the PLC, being that it is a private community is that we also share pictures and stories of our family, like how Sean recently shared pictures of his children. Here is a picture of me and my fiancée, Rosa Marisol. We got engaged on 4/21
Here is information about Greg’s one day CI training in Chicago this summer: http://tprspunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/chicago-comprehensible-input-training.html
A lot of readers here know about the following great way to spend some fun time with the kids each week, but I republish this article from April of 2009 for anyone for whom it may be a new strategy: For whatever reason, I have avoided kindergarten day all these years. I guess I was
