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Report from the Field – Jeff Brickler
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5 thoughts on “Report from the Field – Jeff Brickler”
Pax, Jeff,
I grew up speaking English only, studied Spanish in high school and college.
To achieve my goals with TPRS, I switched from Spanish to teaching French, with almost no French background. I still struggle with the change and the implications.
I only know a little Latin, and when I was having so many problems at my school (a bit similar to yours, but the parents and students were more understanding), until very recently, I dreamt of learning and teaching Latin!
Not any more, after reading about your nightmare! OMG — I cannot believe what you are going through.
Parents, kids, admin — everyone is resisting and attacking– that sucks!
Anyway — good luck and let us know how your are doing.
PS — Do you see any way you could use the Tarheel Reader to help you with the HW component? Anyway, I loved it, when I was trying to teach myself Latin.
Just a thought. If you ask students to orally translate to their parents a story that you’ve gone over several times so that it’s easy for them, the parents who remember how hard translating was for them may be impressed. ???
What I would do if I absolutely had to give homework, aside from giving something as meaningful as possible, is not include it in the grade for those who are engaged in class but won’t ever do homework because who cares.
You can exempt them, and the helicopter parents of the other students will never need to know.
Laura
I use a games subscription web service for homework a la http://www.wlangames.net/DNeubauer.php . My school expects 15-20 minutes of foreign language homework every night. The other teachers in my department give workbook pages.
I am very happy doing homework through that site plus http://www.skritter.com (which is only for Chinese or Japanese – it’s character practice). But World Language Games takes a fair amount of set up time. Once it’s done, though, there are lots of options of activities, many of which are CI (instead of just flashcards, etc.).
Homework ideas.
I got Ramiro Garcia’s Instructor’s notebook and used his TPR cartoon strips with audio files of my own voice giving Latin commands. The kids and parents loved it. You can find it here.
http://www.tpr-world.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=1000-10-05
I teach at a Classical school where the grammar-translation, parts-to-whole methodology is well entrenched. My supervisor even wrote the curriculum. I’m nervous every day.
Joe Justiss