My interests these days (since January) in my classroom are:
1. PQA details – how to get maximum use out of the three structures.
2. What is the best way to plan a week – completely new stuff I have been developing since January. Videotape will help illustrate that new weekly schedule, but I will need some time – very hard to find as we all know these days – to pull that together, although I already have a ton of video footage.
3. Making what we do effortless.
That’s my own list. I will be focusing a lot on those three things here for at least the next three or four weeks. I will start things off with a first post about PQA in the next blog entry.
Hopefully, then, in the next month we can get some good discussion going about PQA and scheduling our week, in particular, as well as about this idea of making CI effortless, on getting that unconscious acquisition thing going that Krashen talks about, on removing the (exhausting) mental tension from the CI process.
Anyway, please share here in the form of comments what you may have on your own mind as well – stuff you would like to work on and talk about. Let’s move the discussion where it should be – on making CI work for us.
Let’s start walking the walk.