Liz Hughes is doing a great job down there in Columbia, SC teaching her graduate course on TPRS for the group of Irmo teachers under the leadership of Michel Baker, whose blog by the way is a good one to visit (find link on this blog). I think the homework the workshop attendees got this week is a brilliant description of Matava’s backwards design plan. Here is the report from Michel:
“… for now, I get to do the homework Liz has assigned to us, by extracting three “hurricane rods” [i.e. target structures] from out of a children’s book text, putting the book away, running the rods through the 3 steps and then picking the book back up and reading it with the students with rods and an “Out of Bounds” board space.
“Liz is doing a phenomenal job as our instructor… she is sincerely fascinated and interested in everyone’s thoughts, while also somehow magically easing most if not all doubts. I envision that she is one who will make lasting and powerful contributions to our profession, and I look forward to watching that unfold in the years to come.”‘