A teacher has expanded the Star Sequence – thought I’d share. It’s not a linear conceptualization of this work, but spatial. This means everything to me because the attempt to make what is an essentially spatial way of teaching (CI) into a linear process that can be followed almost like a textbook has been – in my opinion – a confusing thing for teachers trying to learn CI for the past 25 years. Of course, those who are studying and implementing the Natural Approach in the fall know that the base concept of the image below, the five points of the star, is pure gold. It is what works for me and Tina. Now Marianne Van Klaveren (Netherlands) has expanded on it beautifully. Each teacher could make one of these depicting their own relationship with their own work using non-targeted CI, naming each strategy that THEY prefer at each point of their progression through the star, just as Marianne has. I have permission to reproduce what she did with it here. Note that the applications of each section of the Star only represent strategies invented by Hargaden/Slavic and Martina Bex.
