TPRS

I got this today. It’s long, but it shines light where light is needed: Dear Ben, I have a long rant, but I just spent three hours last night, and am scheduled for seven more tomorrow, of a workshop that seems to ignore everything we know about CI, and yet even quotes Krashen. I like the […]

On the thread of classroom discipline, Toni asked some questions which I have rescued from the comments and put here in Q and A form to preserve them as a searchable blog: Q. I haven’t used any PAT activities yet, but if I were to adopt that procedure, what do I do if the kids are

This email from a colleague addresses the simple idea that if we teach numbers by themselves, the kids will learn only the numbers. But, if we teach the actual language, our kids will learn both numbers and the rest of the language as well. Here it is: A second-year kid came in and complained that we

If a cow is in the fields and you want it to give milk, you don’t talk to it about the various kinds of grass to eat, analyzing with it the soil that the grass grows in, and you also don’t try to make it create milk before eating any grass. You just let it eat

I want to turn this recent comment here into a blog so that it will become searchable. (Stephen please note that a search on “classroom discipline” on this site will bring many blog entries from past months and years that may be worth reading on this topic as well.) Stephen wrote: … it’s hard not

I wrote to Stephen this morning about the discipline thing, just as a little pep talk for the day and as a follow up to that comment about from yesterday: Stephen the entire thing is, when a kid is being an ass, to just stop teaching, go into English, and patiently tell them that you

Elissa asked me to post this great question: Hello community of TPRSers- The 7th and 8th grades in my school will be traveling to Costa Rica in May. (Yes, I get to go with them!) And I am feeling stuck trying to figure out how to best prepare them. I’m new to TPRS and have

The tidal waves of change away from grammar and book based instruction are no longer coming, they are here. We in TPRS can take a deep breath. Each state is in a slightly different place on this, of course, but CA and CO are certainly on board with ACTFL – it is a legal thing

Typically, teachers who go to the trouble of making TPRS work for them experience, as a result of that effort, larger class sizes. There is no need to even mention, in this regard, the precipitous drops experienced in traditional classes – it is a fact. In a large suburban Denver high school, 89% of students quit their foreign