The unbridged chasm between TPRS/CI and school settings – despite over 20 years of trying to bridge it – remains wide. This has caused heartache. Teachers have kind of driven themselves crazy trying to make CI work in schools. Careers have failed.
CI works fine, but I have quietly wondered, for at least ten years now, if CI can even work at all in school settings. School settings are just too unjurious to CI, with all their rules and demands and stupid people judging imaginative teachers who merely want to align with the research but can’t because of the way schools operate. Testing is a huge factor. Ignorant administrators is up there too.
What to do? We don’t need vague advice on this topic. It’s too serious an issue. We need a specific plan for teachers who want to make CI work for them in school settings. See the next post for more on this topic.