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Kate Legere
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Welcome Kate! I really enjoyed reading your story. I am thrilled that the FLAME workshop proved so pivotal in turning you on to TCI….
I wonder if you might consider sharing your story above on the FLAME Yahoo group list? I know that there are so many teachers in Maine that turn a deaf ear to the TPRS acronym (which is exactly why I decided NOT to mention TPRS in the write-up of our workshop but to stress the ACTFL position statement of 90% instead) and your story might speak to many of them.
You stated that doing workshops is difficult for you but I would really encourage you to plan (even a few years in advance) to join the annual two day workshop in Lewiston in October some year. It is a wonderful group and a wonderful opportunity to get better at delivering CI.
Anyway, thank you again for sharing your story. I look forward to meeting you sometime!
Skip
Skip, I will indeed share my story-in particular about how I went to that session that didn’t have TPRS in the title. And that TPRS is not being a hyper clown gesturing wildly for an entire 80 minutes while kids look at you like you’re an idiot. I’m sorry I can’t come this week, however I am friendly with teachers in the Camden district and they all are required to use TPRS. I’m going for a day observation/discussion soon. I do belong to the Yahoo group and will share but find this blog much more user-friendly. I will find you at FLAME, if not before!
Regards,
Kate
We will miss you there Kate!! Thanks for being part of this group!!!
with love,
Laurie
Kate – thank you for sharing your story on the FLAME group!!! I know people who also think it is “standing in front of a group of kids being hyperactive” and like Skip said, “turn a deaf ear to the acronym.” I made the mistake of using the term “TPRS” last year when I started. My principals even thought that it meant jumping around like an idiot. I sent him a bunch of reading material, and now I think he “gets” it and is supportive (actually our numbers are dropping like crazy in our dept – both French and Spanish! – so we have to do something that makes the kids want to take the classes….it’s an elective) My dept. head went to the same workshop last March at FLAME (I was the ‘actress’ who wanted the BIG dog!!!) He, too, really enjoyed the workshop and is now going to the conference this week!
I am SO glad that you have jumped into this with us, and that you are now a member of this blog — it has saved MY life — several times over!!!! I can understand why it’s so hard to get to a conference, but you get to teach in paradise!!! (I *WISH* I was so lucky to live on one of the islands!!!)
Welcome and good luck! 🙂
Hi Kate,
Thank you! I just think that the line you mention in your bio “Blah blah blah. Well anyway. I had dismissed TPRS because I didn’t know what it was” speaks for SO many right now…. I have now had 2-3 people tell me that what “Anne Matava did at the FLAME conference was NOT TPRS” but that “what she did was amazing”
I did not realize that Camden teachers were required to use TPRS….
Thank you for posting your bio on my TPRS Maine… yahoo group. I think though, that it would reach many more people who are turned off by/unfamiliar with the TPRS acronym if it were posted on the FLAME yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flteachers/messages?o=1)
There has been some TCI friendly posting there lately… Don posted a Krashen article a while back.
I will not be attending FLAME in March this year. Without TCI there is really nothing there that benefits me enough to be away from my students. I just don’t have the energy/time to pull off another TCI workshop this year.
Again, welcome to the PLC…
Skip
Thank you all for your kind words of welcome. It is so wonderful to know about this group. Skip, I just joined the FLAME yahoo group and will post my bio there. Maybe even rewrite it for those people who dismiss it because they think they have to act like an idiot 100% of the time. If you aren’t going to FLAME I might not either. Instead I could go on school visits.
Thanks again for your support.
Kate
I have only been to one CCFLT – state WL meeting like FLAME – in 12 years. It was horrible.
That’s great Kate. I know there are people that your story would resonate with.
I also know that the challenge to meet the ACTFL of 90% CI in L2 is resonating with people too…
Thank you for your willingness to share your story on the FLAME yahool group.
I think you are absolutely right…. that visiting classes (Anne Matava’s for example) would be a LOT more beneficial than much of what is at FLAME…
Hope to meet you sometime
Skip
Welcome, Kate! I was so happy to read your bio. I am at Belfast Area High School, if you are ever looking for another CI French teacher to pal about with, you know where to find me. Also, did you go to 5th Street School? I taught French there many moons ago…It’s news to me about Camden too, great news! That is a powerful validation of what Laura and I are doing here at BAHS, and what you are doing out there on Isleboro. I hope I get to meet you soon.
Hi Anna!
I recently tried to find your contact info through the BAHS website, but it’s not current. I did go to Fifth St, in the early 80’s and had Claudette Kydd. I would love to come visit you at school sometime soon.