Today I got an email from Ray Bauer who is doing important work in elementary TPRS. His email reflects perfectly my thoughts of recent weeks, that kids ultimately need to feel in control of generating their own stuff for the CI class. (I can think of only one exception to the above statement, and […]
These two articles make me think that gesturing in TPRS may be underrated: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071104191551.htm http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004434.html
Giving up control, staying in flow, and, most importantly, allowing the kids to feel in control as well, all while delivering massive amounts of CI every day, is what I have been wrestling with lately. It started with Michele’s comment here a few days ago: “…they like doing illustrations for their own stories. They like
I got this excellent inquiry from Josh about formal TPRS curriculae, whether they exist or not in the way he means below. I personally have not developed anything formal, just my books, and I think that any TPRS curriculum written in use so far has been written around available materials, usually those of Carol Gaab
Today was a lovely day in the 70’s in Denver and, on mile 40 of a 50 mile ride, this guy passes me on a $7000 bike. Dale Crum! I haven’t seen this dean of TPRS, expert in classroom management, for years, since I left Jefferson County. For those who don’t know Dale, he goes
You may want to use this story script from Jim later this month. I’m going to start this one early, because each year I seem to remember this script the day of Halloween or after it: Halloween I want to be you should be this year Two years ago, Hank wanted to be a dragon
I don’t know about you, but the deeper in I get, the more untenable classroom instruction in foreign languages looks. I am not sure that classrooms of 35 work. Are we just spinning our wheels? Should we keep trying to figure this stuff out – how to best teach languages in classrooms? (These are just
Susan Gross will be presenting a workshop on TPRS level 2 through AP in Jefferson County, CO in the next few weeks. TPRS training in upper levels is practically non-existant. I don’t know the exact dates but if you are in the Denver area you may want to get there. I will see Susan this Sunday
Properly trained TPRS trained kids know much more, acquire much more, than any standardized test could ever measure. Traditional teachers know this on some level, and consequently are not the biggest fans of TPRS teachers. They know the power of the method, if they know their craft, which means knowing Krashen. Mistrust results. Luckily for the
Ben, I attended the two day workshop in Maine a few weeks ago and I had to let you know that one of my students came into class today and told me she had a dream IN SPANISH-…The dream was that it was Spanish class and I was speaking in Spanish and she felt glad
Heather has very kindly clarified some things about ways to use this site. This was published last summer and is here repeated for those who may have missed it then: Bonjour to all of Ben’s readers! I recently fixed an issue with the RSS feed from the blog – if you tried to use it,
Below is a suggested sequence of class activities for a reading class – I had mentioned it here a month or so ago, or maybe I presented it to the Maine group – I can’t remember. If there is anything I am missing in this reading or song sequence that would add to a good flow
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