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7 thoughts on “Ideas for 2013”
One thing I learnt last year that changed my teaching? Easy, I just started TPRS this summer 😀
One thing I intend to do is probably go to both TPRS-conferences in the US even if I have to fly in from Germany. And maybe do a PhD about TPRS.
And the game changers… jGr, embedded readings, moral support?
Thanks everyone for your amazing contributions.
I’m still thinking about THE biggest thing since everything is big for me right now.
The one thing I definitely have to make work better for me is jGR, actually the whole discipline piece. My jGR is worth 30% of their grade (that’s what we all seem to have agreed on) but quite a few kids still don’t care. Not that they behave badly – they just get so excited, they can’t help themselves. Which in itself is good thing, right? So, that’s a bit of a dilemma I’m grappling with.
Now, as far as the game changers:
textivate (!!!!!) – love, love, love it. David, you’re the man!
embedded reading – another amazing tool from the ever amazing Laurie! Love you!!
SSR
RandD
Ben, the PLC and EVERYBODY it it!!!
One thing I learned that changed my teaching —
Assigning 20 or so Jobs and jGR. I’m so excited to be doing Anne Matava’s stories with confidence and success.
One thing I intend to do —
Do one story every week for the rest of the year. I’ve never done that before.
And the game changers —
Either learn to write amazing stories that kids love/like, or buy some that fit the bill.
Anne’s wish from the beginning was that each teacher learn how to write their own scripts. That is why she provided that section of her books, bc she knows that the best stories are the most highly personalized to each class.
And thank you Leigh for mentioning the jobs. I had totally forgotten about them and yet next to jGR they were the most important change for me this year- truly a big time game changer.
There is so much to remember, and yet the new Weekly Schedule 2013 category keeps my routine simple. (a lot of the new categories aren’t really categories at all, but rather a kind of search function for when I want to quickly find a certain article.)
Anne’s input and David’s recent input with his story template have really cleared up the script writing thing. Very helpful. Off the top of my head, a very major thing has been the simplification and the weekly schedule – keeps me sane!
I would say these things are biggest in my mind from what I’ve learned this year:
1. jGR and the Interpersonal Communication skills standards as a grade-able, measurable, observable part of students’ grades. Huge!
2. Stories are not a required part of making CI work. There are many options, and either you and/or some of your students may need time or ever get to that level of communicative cooperation.
3. Having a weekly schedule based on what kind of input. I do two days based on listening input, 2 days based on reading input, and a day for odd things – sometimes games, culture, a song, etc. This massively simplifies planning (with 5 levels and 5 preps, simplifying planning is huge). And I can be creative and flexible within that guide.
4. Avoiding output in homework. I don’t have the option per my school not to give homework, but I no more output a la textbook and workbook exercises. They have almost all online CI-based stuff. Homework that asks for output is detrimental to the learning process, I am convinced. Kids who can do that get a false sense of thinking they know the language when they can memorize well, and kids who can’t do that well get the false idea that they can’t learn a language.
The one thing that I intend to do in 2013 is find my niche in using TPRS. I personally need structure (alot of it) to maintain my sanity, and I have yet to find the right formula that works for me.