Someone objected to me today how “easy” the Ultimate CI quizzes are. Whenever I hear that objection, I refute it.
We must ask ourselves what we are doing as teachers. Is it our purpose to confuse half the class so that the other half can establish its dominance over those who process language more slowly, or whose father is in jail, or who don’t have enough food to eat, or who have been taught by the system in place in American schools right now that they can be wrong?
Everyone can learn a language and it is our job to make that happen. Moreover, our class populations remain robust even at the higher levels when we teach in ways that guarantee the success of all of our students. Job security is a good thing!
(Of course, there are schools where the opposite happens. Some teachers, only wanting only to explore how to embrace the research and their kids with high quality language instruction, are often targeted by colleagues in those schools as weird and rebellious. That is just so shitty for everyone involved, causing Sleepless Night Syndrome.)