Classroom Observations

COLORFUL SPANISH: VOCABULARY HELP FOR NEW TEACHERS

By |2018-08-21T15:48:50-06:00August 21st, 2018|

A Short Glossary of Insults and Off-Color Street Spanish. Find the whole list here Among some groups, I suppose this vocabulary could be considered high-frequency, but not in polite company. This material was originally published in Conversational Spanish, a textbook I wrote and used in my college classes for almost 20 [...]

A CLASSROOM OBSERVATION FROM 2012

By |2018-04-11T11:13:17-06:00April 11th, 2018|

I have recently posted many classroom observations by a variety of teachers on this blog. Here is an previous observation from 2012, when a teacher relatively new to TPRS observed me teaching an intensive language lab course to a diverse group of high school age learners at the 2012 [...]

OBSERVATION BY A NEW TEACHER

By |2018-11-19T09:51:30-07:00March 23rd, 2018|

I have been very fortunate to have been visited by two master teachers in the past two weeks: Connie Navarro and Karen Rowan. Now here are the observations by a set of fresh eyes. Noah is a second year teacher from a Christian school in Denver, full of ideas and [...]

CONNIE NAVARRO’S OBSERVATION

By |2018-04-11T11:21:56-06:00March 12th, 2018|

Connie Navarro visited my classroom on March 8, 2018. Her observations are particularly valuable because she has so much experience observing CI teachers. Connie has been a Peer Observer in the Denver Public Schools for the last five years and is the president of the Colorado Congress of Foreign [...]

An Unusual Classroom Observation

By |2018-02-23T07:07:39-07:00February 22nd, 2018|

The way we teach with comprehensible input has applications to other disciplines and we are barely scratching the surface of ways that teaching like this can positively affect education. Last week I was pleased to have an unusual visitor in my classroom. Larry Currey, a math teacher at Liberty [...]

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION BY A FRENCH TEACHER

By |2017-10-11T13:22:15-06:00September 16th, 2015|

Here are the reflections on a recent classroom observation by Bridget Webster, a middle school French teacher. Her heartfelt and keen observations will help to encourage teachers that are considering taking the plunge into Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI). Bridget has been teaching for three years and is relatively new to [...]

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