There has been some discussion lately on assessment and I would like to highlight what Claire has written on her blog on this topic. It’s pretty much what I think exactly and I appreciate Claire’s elegant points on behalf of children. Of particular value is this great sentence: …rubrics capture responses to CI on paper, then celebrate […]
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This is a good article from Jim’s blog: http://www.trippsscripts.com/#!Slow-in-the-Other-Things-Too/c1uxc/57bc6f700cf279ec4135c6ba
This is from Cherie: A teacher at Albemarle HS in Charlottesville VA had a family emergency and has to leave the country by the end of the month. The full time position is for Spanish 1 and 2 and they are seeking a TPRS/CI teacher. Please contact Jay Thomas at 434-531-6146 or jpthomas@k12albemarle.org. Please share with
Mike Peto is creating a list of CI novels – grouped by languages – by independent authors. Now we don’t have to go search the web for a variety of literature. This means that all of our work can be appreciated and shared without having to work through some existing publisher or approval process, which narrows the field
What are people doing for bathroom policies this year? Mine has always been they can’t go in the first or last 10′ of class, since they should be going during the break, unless of course it’s an emergency. During the middle part of class, they can slide out quietly, but only two can go (emergencies
Laura Avila shares and the group is invited to comment: The words I have on the walls in my Spanish classroom are all high up and are pronouns, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. No verbs, no nouns. I have these mainly because they are used a lot and I don’t feel like having to write them
This is from Elena Overvold in Portland: Hi Ben, Tina created this schedule for the first few days of class for people on a block schedule (90 min. periods). I’m planning to give this a whirl next week when the students come back. Days 1 & 2: 1.Students make name cards on card stock–> Include
Steven writes: Well, I am totally cooking with CI here. I just finished my day 4 of teaching with OWI and CWB. Just out of curiosity I asked if anyone wanted to retell our OWI. It was a small golden piano inside the mouth of an alligator along with one of my student’s brothers. Well
As more of us start working with the Invisibles and experimenting with storytelling using emergent language based on visual images created by the class (through a One Word Image or an image from an individual in class), let’s create a way to share images and stories of the characters that emerge. The quality of the
I am currently in a workshop in Portland, OR, working on beginning the year strategies, and we are discussing better ways to build a word wall. This is in keeping with my new focus on using emergent language, and allowing the kids to drive the content and pacing of what happens in our classrooms. One
I am writing you to tell you of my presentation to foreign language teachers in my district yesterday where I am the only TPRSer. They gave me 50 minutes, and all were Spanish speakers except one Mandarin teacher. So she came up front, and I taught her while everyone watched (and participated globally). I had
