Here are two more reports from teachers on how they use the Invisibles. The first is an eloquent description, the second only an image, but it’s a whopper in that it mixes an invisibles character with an actual kid in his (Kyle Carr’s), which I think is just bodacious and wonderful. I love the idea […]
Well the Invisibles are a year and a half old now, thereabouts. Tina was the first to extensively test them from January through into spring last year (2016) and she really hasn’t stopped. Without her co-authoring the book on the Invisibles, A Natural Approach to Stories, it would never have made it into print with
Meg Prossnitz in the Chicago area (Des Plaines/Schaumburg) is looking for a couple of Spanish teachers who specialize in CI: Hi Ben, Our dept needs 2 Spanish teachers for next year and we would LOVE someone with TCI experience – could you ask the blog community? Anyone interested can send resumes to our principal, harrington.john@ccsd59.org.
I got a confidence-building note today from one of the top students I have taught in my career, who may be the best of all over almost 40 years. She is German, and very demanding – in a good way – as a student because her processing rate is so fast, so it feels like
Our own Steven Ordiano in Fresno, CA has composed the first Invisibles song: Tu Le Sais. It is so French – it has that sound. We might hear this playing in a pub in France. Students who hear songs about invisible characters that they invented are more likely to want to listen to them than
How true are the statements below? I need feedback for a Bite Size Book I am writing on activities to start the year: We only do “extreme staying in bounds” and avoid sliding any new untranslated vocabulary by the kids for a few weeks into the academic year. Once the students have activated their brains
Our long time friend Don Read has retired. He has been a member of our group for at least seven years and hosted our San Francisco workshop last year. One thing I noticed about Don is how he so quickly embraced all the little details of this work. He had a No Bullshit radar thing going
Tina gives a heartfelt response to Terry’s morelist position on SL: Terry you write: después de que el idioma se haya ido de la mente del que escucha, For this not able to read Spanish, this means “after the words that the learner heard have gone from the brain” i.e. saying that in SL the learner
A repost: We’ve never gone deep with the equity piece. We have discussed it, but never enough. We have ignored it, mainly under the weight of so much change in so many other areas or our work over so many years. However, this summer at Cascadia the equity piece will be one of the main
I’m returning to teaching after staying home to raise my 3 kids. I was taught to teach very traditionally in my schooling and I don’t want to teach that way! CI seems so much more organic. I just returned from an interview for a small private school – one of their classes only has 3
From 2014: I was just listening to a version, featuring violin, of Ave Maria by Arthur Grumiaux. I used to play the violin. My dad and brother both made it into careers (violin and cello, respectively). But about twenty years ago, because I didn’t feel good enough, I sold my violin and with it my
Many here know that for our views on best practices Tina and I are no longer allowed on the iFLT list. On top of that, Michael Kundrat – the moderator of the moretprrs list, won’t publish our summer workshop schedule there. No reason given. Fine. I’ll post it here and we will post it on
