I have always been a fan of the Alaska group and particularly of Michele Whaley. They are on fire with new ideas and energy. I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew that Michele has a new blog site: http://mjtprs.wordpress.com/ (Find other sites dedicated to CI/TPRS in the right column of this blog page)
Susan Gross is coming to Japan for the first time, giving a three day workshop September, 18, 19th and 20th, 2010. If you are in Japan or nearby, don’t miss this rare chance for the best TPRS training available in the world. The workshop will benefit teachers who teach any language and any level. For
One of Anne Matava’s awesome “hogs” is now in college. She wrote to Anne this past week: Dear Frau, First of all I hope you enjoyed the great summer we had, and that you are all settled in at school! I feel at home here now, which probably means I have settled in for the most
L mentioned in a recent email (I’ll soon get that into blog entry form) that she felt overwhelmed that we do so much. How can we fit all of the CI discussion, PQA, stories, reading, writing, dictation, and (more recently) culture lessons into one week? Let’s take a look at the history. (Please note that
L email of 9.7.10: I loved Los Alamitos. Looking back at it, it was extremely inspiring; it showed me how great TPRS could be. It did not help me at all to start doing it. I keep having that image about a little girl watching ballerinas for hours and hours and trying to learn how to
In Alamitos I met a teacher, L, and we talked about maybe blogging about her experience of what she learned this summer. The link to that first blog about L is: https://benslavic.com/blog/?p=7686 Now that school has started I have received some emails from L. They express what it is like to really believe in an idea
Below is the flyer information from Skip providing the information about my upcoming visit to Maine. And don’t forget that Susan Gross will be in Japan on the 18th and 19th of this month: The World Language Department at Poland Regional High School will host Ben Slavic, author of TPRS in a Year! and PQA in a
There is currently a great Big Picture presentation on diving that syncs great with a lot of year-beginning vocabulary. It’s called “Diving In” and can be found at: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/diving_in.html In Circling with Balls, we are using the verb “jump” an awful lot, and this picture set takes that and drills it wonderfully. I used the terms
Susan Gross is coming to Japan for the first time, giving a three day workshop September, 18-19th and 20th, 2010. If you are in Japan or nearby, don’t miss this rare chance for TPRS training. The workshop will benefit teachers who teach any language and any level. For more information and to register contact Martha
Laurie said in a recent blog comment: “…I have long wondered about the irony of measuring language acquisition using NUMERICAL data…”. I replied, as a comment, and make it a blog entry here because then it is more searchable: Laurie I think it’s time for an investigation. I’m not wondering anymore. The manner in which
They will feed us if we let them. What does that mean? To me, it means that if we give up worrying about controlling the direction of the discussion in the target language, and listen to them more, then the discussion will be more interesting, because it will include, not exclude, their point of view. But
