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10 thoughts on “I Don’t Give Gold Away”
I agree. Self-care.
Ben, How is it that Linda Li’s students are not complicated by intrusion, but yours are?
What’s the deal?
Leigh Anne what do you mean by intrusion? Parents wanting grammar instruction? I only have one out of all my students. I didn’t make that clear. But that little girl is such a pain in the patoot, and the daughter of the ultra conservative chairman of the Board of Directors of the school to boot (more homework for my daughter!) – who is a true memorizer of epic proportions who has created an undercurrent in the class that grammar is important even though the kids always want stories, that I have decided to respond. I think many of us have to go to grammar for a few days or even more at some point in a school year just to make our students appreciate stories. But yeah, it’s just that one girl, but she has swayed the class. (After all, I’ve only been doing this for 38 years so she may be right with her 3 months of experience in language learning.)
I think Linda is so far off the chart that no parent would dare confront her, just us mortels. Plus, not too many parents ever took Chinese. It’s the parents who got A’s in traditional French classes that always load up and fire at teachers who use CI, and with Latin it’s even worse! I would collapse under what the Latin Kings are experiencing right now.
Did that address the question? Man, I love that my initials are BS. I can give responses to questions that I don’t even understand!
It is amazing how one person can affect us so much…39 good apples, but…
Does anyone have a cash of worksheet documents for Spanish?
Craig the best I’ve seen at least for French and probably also for Spanish is the Amsco Deuxième Livre (R214 W) which is a true tour de force of worksheets. Of course, with all the worksheets out there, anything you grab will do the job. One thing not lacking on this planet are worksheets for foreign language learning. I’m guessing tens or even hundreds of thousands of trees have been destroyed for them and textbooks over the past fifty years. We have a lot of reasons to do this work in this new way, but let’s not forget the trees. It may be the best reason of all!
So are you saying that in this regard you are the Lorax?
Yes! But Craig I fear that it’s not just traditional teachers now who are trashing trees. I think we are starting to have a lot of paper-using CI instruction starting to happen. Tell me I’m wrong! And think of the paper used in standardized district testing!
It’s true ther is a lot of paper out there. Because I teach at continuation school and we’re 1:1 with technology I almost never use paper. I have a hard time even wanting to hand things out especially when I know it’ll be in the trash the next day.
Yes, Nathaniel, how right you are.
Thank you, Ben, for explaining. Yes, “intrusion” is anybody telling you and your students what should be happening in your own classroom. The daughter of the Chairman; lucky you….
How many years has Linda Li been at the school? Just curious.
I am new in my current position at Ayala High School, in Chino Hills, after 11 years at different high school, and am going through just exactly what you are going through. Ugh!!!!!!