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Report from the Field and Call for Proposals
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Ben, thank you so much for passing this along. That video of your kids was pure gold, and I am glad you put the link!
PLC colleagues, please come on out next October. Portland is fun to visit, the people at our conferences are really fun, I’m buying the drinks and tater tots, and I will help you plan your presentation if you want me to! This is a joint conference for Oregon and Washington, so the audience is much larger than the Oregon-only conference we just had this past weekend. If you have any questions at all or even the slightest wisp of an interest, email me!
And PLC members, while we’re talking about Oregon, remember that you can get recertification credits simply by reading this blog. Tina has set it all up with Portland State University. I think all you have to do is read here and then write up a very simple reflection paper and that’s it. Tina if you want to add more please do so. I figure, had I needed them for recertification, I could have been recertified, as a conservative estimate, 1,713,600 times since 2001.
Yes Ben thanks for the reminder. The course is ongoing. You can sign up anytime. It’s offered every fall, winter, spring, and summer term. Grades are reported in December, March, June, and September. It’s totally self directed and I designed it to be basically work you do anyway. Read the PLC, respond if you want. Or just read and absorb. This group is a treasure trove of past comments and ideas. Then write up an essay and some lessons/stories/ideas. That’s it. I know we teachers work so hard and learn so much that goes unnoticed by those in charge. This course was designed to get you some official credits for your dedication to your protection so development.
Professional development of course. I love my iPhone. Lol
CI track. Innovative. Congratulations. Hope it goes well bringing the scattered TCI/TPRS practitioners together. I am finding that here in MA there are more of us out in the thickets than we had imagined.
Congratulations, that is, on the new job, the current and coming positions at the state level. And thanks for setting up the PSU opportunity.
Thanks!! I’m very happy with all the new stuff!
Related to conference presentations, but a sort of report from the field: next Sunday, Oct. 19, I’ll be at a Chinese teaching conference. Small (about 70 people) and it’s the first time it’s been organized: “First Chinese Innovation Forum” in Monterey, CA.
The format is odd but the same as some other Chinese teacher conferences: browsing tables with information and samples of ideas by many different teachers. People look & stay as long as they want, but there is no formal presentation – conversations might happen. Not sure, but I’m the only CI teacher presenting as far as I know. My proposal was on MovieTalk (full-length film version of it, better for upper levels) because there’s been a lot of interest from Chinese teachers about it. Making a movie comprehensible without English subtitles is pretty much an unknown concept. I’ll set up some info and loop video of my class doing MovieTalk and earlier levels with Video & Discuss (I distinguish these because they work rather differently). I think of it as something a person without TPRS training might be drawn to and actually able to try, and a door into other CI methods and principles, too.
I’ll be at a table with a couple other teachers with “movies” as our theme. One who I’ve talked a fair amount with by Facebook and email, and she’s been reading about CI and TPRS heavily. She knows a CSL professor from Taiwan who wants to know about TPRS, and she plans to introduce us. Hopefully that will lead to discussion over a meal or on Monday before I fly home. My flight costs will be reimbursed by the conference, which is great!
I think it’s good for us to be applying to present and presenting whenever feasible. There seem to be a half-dozen Chinese-only annual conferences around the US: 1 or 2 that attract over 1000 attendees.
That’s really cool. Infiltration is my strategy. Just building communities within existing structures. We will see how it goes! Hope it goes great!
“Infiltration” I havent heard that word since my college friends and I occupied the Administration building at UC DAVIS in 06.
A comprehensive campaign, it was. Sounds like your doing that over in the Pacific Northwest. Awesome.