TPRS

Cara O'Brien-Holen

Cara O’Brien-Holen teaches French at East Anchorage High School. She served in the Peace Corps – Mali, West Africa 1997-1999. I think that that is just cool. Anyway, Michele sent something Cara wrote as part of one of the Anchorage group’s  teachers’ final course reflections. Michele said that she read this “as our final response person of the day, […]

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Embracing Sunday Night

I admit to a mild feeling of trepidation on Sunday nights, especially when I have, as Jody said, vacation head. Will my lesson plans work? Will I be in mental conflict with one or more kids? Will I reach them? How bad will the push back be? Will my instruction reach them? It seems worse on

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Stephen Valdés

Experienced TPRS Teachers, As a new foreign language teacher, I want to ask you all to please seek out student teachers to teach with you in your classrooms. For my student teaching, I ended up by chance in the classrooms of Rosa Santaiti and Cindy Price, two enthusiastic and experienced TPRS teachers, in a foreign

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Jeff Klamka

Jeff sent these cool CI activities but the queue is so jammed up with stuff that I didn’t get it here in time for the NCAA tournament. Anyway, it’s great stuff for making the CI interesting. (Jeff, my apologies on getting this up here late, and to others who don’t see their stuff up here

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A Cool Department Chair

A colleague recently sent me this. It is from a department chair in a school for which this colleague just went through an interview process. It speaks to the fact that not all schools want things done in the old way: It was truly a pleasure watching you teach and discussing my favorite topic, TPRS. We were all impressed

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C.S. Lewis

Here is a passage from The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis: For in Calormen, storytelling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of

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Riegg Language Concepts

This also from Brad today. Looks like a good project. Dear Family and Friends, As you may know, we started a family business and ministry called Riegg Language Concepts, in which we teach Spanish using the Bible. It has been a most satisfying and enjoyable venture for us. By God’s grace, we have seven wonderful

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