I find it outrageous that teachers have to so often jump through so many hoops justifying their decision to teach using comprehensible input. Such pride in those they work for and with! We ought to just come out and say it and get it over with: trying to learn via textbooks and worksheets when using […]
When a teacher shows by example how much can be done with CI, others in the department or district sometimes call in trainers. It becomes a tug of war between those who want to change the program and those who don’t. In the latter category, there is a typical litany of questions they ask. One
Trying to find a certain building in New York City’s canyons and complexities is not easy. I suggest that we avoid building a New York City out of our work with comprehensible input. I sense that many of us are making mini New Yorks in our classrooms. We can’t seem to dive off the high
Here is how Wikipedia describes Krashen’s Natural Approach: …the natural approach is a method of language teaching developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It aims to foster naturalistic language acquisition in a classroom setting, and to this end it emphasizes communication, and places decreased importance on conscious
I’m reposting this. I feel it is going to be an important thread here this year. I will follow this with a related post tomorrow. In it, Alisa asks a few questions that would make for some good group discussion. Last year at the American Embassy School in New Delhi I spoke with my principal
Good article from Erica: http://www.profepeplinski.com/profes-blog/learning-a-language-or-3-or-4-is-for-everyone
This article was written a few years ago and published in Education Week by our PLC member Jeanette Borich. It provides an excellent overview of what we are all about in our comprehensible input classrooms and so I reproduce it here as a kind of way to hit the reset button after our vacation to
I propose a motto for our group for 2017: You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato
We have fought long and hard for ten years here in our PLC on behalf of kids. As we get ready to crank up yet another year of discussion, I want to thank everyone who has stayed along for the ride and anyone who has just recently joined us. Our dream of a private place where
Erin Nielson in Connecticut just shared with me this email, very useful information for those with pdf files of my books, so thank you Erin for sharing it with the group: …I figured out that yes, I can send my pdf downloads from you to my Kindle. Each Kindle has an email associated with it and
Our classes are based on a creative community that we lead. In all communities, the members play different roles, and bring different strengths to the group. We create stories together, but some kids are stronger co-creators. We laugh, but some kids get more of the humor. We have strong eye contact, but some have stronger
Here is a link to Alisa’s blog. It’s a fine article for us to keep in mind as we get ready to crank the comprehensible input engines up again: Motherese
