I don’t think our idea of working together to identify a verb sequence that we wanted to teach – common planning on line – can work. Melissa and I were thinking about it but here is my thinking on it now, sixth months later: we each know what we want to teach, what our students’ needs are, and so we should choose by ourselves. It’s such a delicate thing, to pick the right verb to teach on the right day! So it was a nice idea but probably wouldn’t have worked because one verb leads naturally to the next in our own classroom settings. It doesn’t matter – we will all probably end up in June with the same verbs on our verb walls anyway. Why? Ask Stephen Krashen.
