Yea, Elizabeth! –
I would first like to say thank you to everyone here for creating such a wonderful, open, honest community. The ideas, thoughts and support I find here are truly invaluable.
Onto the bio! I teach German 1 and 2 at a high school near Philadelphia. This coming year will be my 4th year teaching but my first full year of teaching with CI. I’m really looking forward to this year and hope I have the energy to sustain CI the whole year! I am in a lucky situation that my German colleague (Andrew Graff) is a CI/TPRSer (such a blessing!) and while most of our Spanish and French colleagues aren’t quite on the CI/TPRS ship yet, we do have a very supportive administration.
Actually, Andrew deserves credit as he is the one that got me on the CI ship by convincing me to go see Susan last March. That day was a life changer. All those questions I had, all those things that I thought I was doing right but knew deep down weren’t quite right suddenly were answered in the form of CI!
The next week I was in the trenches already testing out PQA…then I realized the part that was missing the whole time…the love and the joy that learning a language (and teaching a language) should be! Even in those short few months at the end of the school year…I noticed it and my students noticed it. “It” being as you put it Ben, Cheerful Input.
MfG,
Elizabeth