Scotty Jimenez teaches high school Spanish in Oxford, MS. He shared with Tina and I at our recent St. Louis workshop that he’s wrapping up his tenth year of teaching and apparently has done it all – six years of traditional teaching out of a big name publisher textbook and three and a half years of TPRS.
He’s now teaching with the Invisibles and is a CI rock star! I was surprised to learn in St. Louis that he had already churned through our new book A Natural Approach to Stories before Tina and I had even sent it off to be published, having received the upgrade from the first version of the book (TPRS – The Easy Way).
Scotty even brought with him some of his own students’ Invisibles along with some video footage of an Invisible story in action. What I love about Scotty was that he is taking Invisibles and putting his own personal spin on it. As teachers, we all have our own personal styles and flair that help us reach out to kids in a variety of ways.
Scotty says: “The Invisibles are merely an easier and more pertinent tool to put the focus back on the KIDS and relieve the stress of prepping and planning using targeted structures.”
Check out his videos on his YouTube channel at Senor Mississippi. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcUEVJV7hR6EaQoPHuvvqlw