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7 thoughts on “Lighten Up”
Beautiful post. Tina is masterful at gesturing in combination with a positive & loving tone and cadence, and her phrasing allows for S-L-O-W without sounding insulting or patronizing.
I would assert that more concrete and overblown gesturing still is acceptable and necessary at the elementary level, where the filter is already way down and huge gestures are, well, funny.
I get that once self consciousness sets in in middle school, reigning it in is crucial.
Here is a YouTube channel of the IGNITE conference. I have uploaded some videos but the other presenters have not yet had a chance…prolly cause they had like 48 hours to turn around and come to Cascadia!
There is a discussion (well, ME talking anyways) on the video of the second day of French, part one, about gesturing and the difference between secondary and elementary. This was prompted by some popcorn-popping-like elementary school kids who visited from Cherokee Summer School. I loved working with those kids! But I realized that day in and day out we would need some HELLA brain breaks.
Steven am I getting cool with the California lingo yet?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUR_e23Atoakyb0WgonOu5g
You got it!
Alisa, was thinking about age and the monitor and your post reminds me that the more students are taught forcefully and with a top-down approach, the more students will be 1) apathetic or 2) always concerned about getting it right. The younger students are less self conscious and will more than likely follow meaning rather than form. Though this will vary between populations, parenting/home raising and schooling.
Its as if there is an unspoken rule, the expectations of older students are different because there is no culture/tradition to address this even at tprs workshops and language labs. Anyway, being a MS teacher at a gifted school is tough in changing the mindset that there is a right way to teach a language and a wrong way. Add to this the desire to explicitly be taught vocab and grammar. Im glad its over.
Yes, Alisa, that’s my experience in elemantary and middle school. My young learners hugely enjoy pointing to sth in the classroom with their backsides but if I did that im my grade seven they would just sit there shaking their heads disbelievingly. They need another kind of humour and fun.
Love it!
Wait the conf already happened?
No, Cascadia starts Monday. That is the IGNITE conference from Oklahoma. I just bought a ton of food and such, and am here with Elena and Andrea having some beverages in the backyard, getting ready for a major influx of CI superpower tomorrow. jen is right down the street, sent me some pictures of a beautiful hike she went on arounf Mt. Hood today, and I am literally counting the hours till I see her in person!