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6 thoughts on “University Student Classroom Observation”
This post by Bryce is the perfect stimulus for me to contact (again) the language methods teacher at college here in town (that I graduated from) and let them know I’d like to present on TPRS, or should I say TCI?, to the students.
Say comprehensible input. Don’t say TPRS because that is not what we do. We do comprehensible input, of which TPRS is one version.
I’ve got to ditto Ben here. I love TPRS and I think Blaine Ray is a genius, but the method sadly has a certain connotation to it. University types think it it silly. Lots of people have tried it, couldn’t make it work and now have a sour grapes attitude. Use CI and cite Krashen or ACTFL.
Go for it, Jim! We need to encourage one another to get out there. I do not think that new teachers will feel comfortable with traditional, conjugation-focused, worksheet-distributing classrooms when they learn more about TPRS/TCI.
Bryce you said that you think that young teachers take to this very easily. It is true. I think that the changes in all the observation models, from SIOP to our LEAP program here in Colorado, have impacted what young people want to do. They don’t want to be observed as the sole center of the classroom, lecturing on grammar. That really is some old shit right there. But I think they see through the Mimi Met model of eclectic teaching as well. Eclectic to me, a full too box with all sorts of tricks and activities, they kind of see through that bullshit too. Even changes outside of the field are making a huge impact on what those young teachers do, esp. in terms of technology. You can do a lot more with technology and CI than you can with technology and discrete grammar instruction or with loads of useless output activities too early. The young ones are going to take to CI like ducks to water. Right here in Denver we have one teacher in her twenties, Erin Gotwals, who has become in a few short years an expert in the mixing of CI and technology for elementary kids. Incredible work and she is now regularly presenting to teachers in Denver Public Schools on that topic. Of course we have the great Leslie Davison in Breckenridge up there in the mountains, who is having a huge effect on parents because the kids are speaking Spanish beautifully with love in their hearts and it has kind of blown everybody who cares about that, mainly the parents but also a lot of bosses, in Summit County a little way up the road (think “purple mountains’ majesty…). Just today I was observed by Patrick Seamars (don’t try to hire him away, we’re keeping him in Denver) who just gets it. He is still an undergrad at Metro State University. I think you are right Bryce, it will be the young ones. And if you see AshLee tell her thanks for her courage to write what she thinks and also for the cool way she spells her name.
Speaking of universities…look what I just found at the UCLA’s Language site…a page on TPRS!
http://lmp.ucla.edu/k-12/tools_tprs.aspx#k12layout