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14 thoughts on “Crystal Barragan”
Good luck with everything and big respect for your courage and determination!
Thanks Charlotte! Happy to be here. 🙂
Hello Crystal and welcome to the PLC!
In echoing Charlotte, definitely keep that courage and determination going :). It’s awesome that you’ve taken the plunge with TPRS/CI. Actually, I think I follow you on Twitter (@profebeck), so it’s great to see you here as well. Keep up the good work and I look forward to getting to know you better through here and Twitter. If you ever have any questions, let me know! (I’m a newbie teacher as well, but may be able to help, and anyway I love collaborating!) Also, are you going to NTPRS in Dallas this year? I will be, so I just thought I’d ask :).
Thank you Nathan! It’s awesome to have a community like this for newbs like us. I missed the early-registration for NTPRS, but I’ll probably be there. I was not able to have my school help pay, so I’ll have to come up with some extra cash.
Welcome, Crystal. I am happy for you that you have found the way to connect with your students and I am doubly happy that you found it sooner in your career rather than later. Whenever I read a new bio, I am struck by their similarities. It’s a process. Hope to meet you someday – maybe a conference this summer:)
All the best,
Chill
Hello Crystal! Glad to see you here! I love this paragraph:
“So what do most language teachers do when students don’t care? We make elaborate worksheets. We play competitive, let’s-conjugate-that-verb type of games. We use complicated tech presentation tools to wow our kids. In the end, we’re just using gimmicks to force output from students before they are even close to being ready to produce TL. We’re shattering their confidence starting day 1 — how can we expect for the majority of them to find value in what we do?”
This so beautifully describes the situation where the teacher just keeps working harder…and in doing so works him/herself even farther away from the students. It’s painful to see and even more painful to be in.
For me, that is the greatest joy in this way of teaching…the connection with and buy in from the students. It isn’t guaranteed and works better by establishing norms and a lot of self-checking on our part in terms of our teaching…but our efforts make a difference!!!!
So glad that you are here!
with love,
Laurie
Thanks Laurie! Self-reflection is part of the job. I don’t see how teachers continue to be teachers without questioning and modifying as they go..
Hey Crystal, it’s so cool that you’re in the PLC now. A few months ago I found my way to your web site and used some of your materials, so thank you for that.
I also gave up ambitions to be a doctor to instead be a teacher. It was tough because of the status thing, and we know that teachers generally don’t get a lot of respect. It wasn’t until I found my way to tprs and especially Ben Slavic that I realized that I could develop my craft as a teacher, enjoy myself and do right by my students in terms of language learning. Since then my self-respect as a teacher has increased a lot.
I hope you’ll hang around. I look forward to reading your posts.
Ben Lev
Sebastopol, CA
Hi Crystal -glad you made it on here!
Hi Greg! Thanks so much for recommending this site. Many expert opinions here. 🙂
No problem -isn’t it the best!!??
Welcome Crystal,
I hope that that “hater” in your department doesn’t sabotage you. It happened to me my first year and can be devastating. You have the right attitude though, and that is everything!
It’s the “hater’s” first year, thank goodness!
Welcome Crystal! and I’m glad I met you in Dallas!!! 🙂
~~MB from Maine