Q. When you write in the board do you do write the English first? A. Yes and the Spanish below it. Then you draw a thick line under the Spanish to separate the new expressions from each other and then you use the Jesus rule to underline the Spanish real slowly. This is a big problem […]
This is a reminder for Group 4, Class 3. Prepare this from the Book 1 Syllabus: Class 3 – Saturday – 2.20.21 (12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time) – Demo and Coaching. Review pp. 17-66 Watch one of the videos from the “seven videos” list. This class will demo and discuss all phases of the
Over the years there certainly have been hundreds of posts here on the PLC about how CI interfaces with the reading piece. However, after studying the problem (reading is a problem in the CI community – I won’t go into why here) for years and years, the only reading product out there that I really
For those using the Ultimate CI Book 1, the following eight steps can be used for when you get observed. So if you have a formal observation coming up this spring, I recommend watching these two videos, which address not just the classroom observation but what to say in the pre-observation meeting. Then, after watching
My books are available as PDFs, which will open and can be read on a Kindle. You can use a registered Kindle’s “Send-to-Kindle” email address to send your PDF to your Kindle via email, or you can upload the PDF directly from your computer to the Kindle by using a USB cable. If you’re not sure
If you’ve ever tried to update or overhaul a website, you know how much time it takes. The “free stuff” from my former site will for that reason be delayed for some months, as I try to attend to all the details of updating 15 years of material here this winter/spring. I apologize for the
If you scroll down to the bottom of the categories list, you will see both the “When Attacked” and the “When Observed” categories. These two were created to help teachers who are (a) undergoing any kind of scrutiny in their buildings (usually it’s from colleagues or parents who don’t understand how people acquire languages), and
A great hypocrisy when an admin asks you during a pre-observation meeting “What will the students be able to do after the lesson?” is to answer it. The real answer to that question is “It can’t be measured” but most of us don’t say that. But that answer is as per fifty years of research.
What about rigor? Some language teachers say that teaching using comprehensible input is too “easy” for the students and so they succeed too much, earning “too many” A’s. The answer to that question is that teaching with comprehensible input definitely seems easy to students and is certainly different from most of their classes. But the
The Chef Everything rests upon the main research idea that language acquisition is an unconscious process. Here’s an image to drive the point home: The unconscious mind is like a chef whose kitchen is located in the basement of our students’ unconscious minds. The vegetables and broth and other ingredients are the comprehensible input that
The Chef Everything rests upon the main research idea that language acquisition is an unconscious process. Here’s an image to drive the point home: The unconscious mind is like a chef whose kitchen is located in the basement of our students’ unconscious minds. The vegetables and broth and other ingredients are the comprehensible input that
