I am amazed that in an age where we claim to be about higher human values, we let a kid with a jacket and a hoodie sit in the back of a room out of touch with others when the fact is he could be the next great American filmmaker or novelist. That riles me. […]
Alisa sent this for us. It shows Blaine at his best. Going so slowly, drawing the kids in, being patient, basically showing the Blaine magic. Really nice. Thanks Alisa and Mike Atkins in Chicago. https://drive.google.com/a/aes.ac.in/file/d/0B4_YYwQSJ3u2cEFrWm9KdGhBd1U/view?ts=570d49e9 This one of Blaine w some high school kids is from Russ:
I know that TPRS has been used for years to help teachers comply with a pre-formulated list of words/structures or thematic units, but has it gotten to where stories are being used not to teach even grammar items? I have heard that there are real people out there teaching TPRS teachers (and calling it TPRS) how
I got this from a book publisher I met once years ago and just noticed in my files. I am glad I found it, because I think it is just so well-written: I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that grammar does not need to be explicitly taught and it’s more something to encounter because I’ve
Maybe the AP teachers here could add in the comment fields below some more thoughts to this recurring thread. There is also the search bar for past articles on the AP exam. Ben – I am writing to you because I am new to the TPRS world / CI method and I have several questions regarding
Cherie Thomas: Albemarle High School (my husband’s school) has a full time Spanish position for next year that just opened up. They are looking for a TPRS/CI trained teacher. The admin is incredibly supportive and provides numerous opportunities for training. They sent teachers to NTPRS last year and several are going to iFLT this summer,
Teaching should not be a cookie cutter experience driven merely by the delivery and collection of data – it should be a fun and expansive personalized journey for both teacher and student, one that is different in each class on each day. Teaching the same thing all day is a proven ingredient in teacher and
This is, if not a full on rant, very close to one and far too lengthy to read by teachers who are caught up in the insane month of April’s super spring funkaholicism: Yesterday the teacher who will replace me, who has no idea what TPRS is, came by to observe. I thought I’d bring
It’s been a long year. We need to mix things up a bit. I have an idea. Just for the fun of it, I want us to make a new thread that is different from our normal discussions here in that every sentence we say in every comment field below (no exceptions) has to include only
I have a request of anyone in our group who has been using the Book CI Book over the past year. I know that the Australian group has been using it, right Bu Cathy? Anyway, if you have seen anything in there like typos or content errors, please let me know. By content errors I
A very cool thing happened today. I projected a story from a previous class, one in which we had created a story. I deliberately put nine errors into it. I asked the (first year 6th grade) class to read it after the SSR part of class. Among the nine there was a relative pronoun error
