Growth & Change Archives - Bryce Hedstrom - TPRS Materials & Training

LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF LANGUAGE STUDENTS MOVES AHEAD

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Federal authorities confirmed yesterday that a nationwide class action lawsuit has been filed to sue school districts across the USA for financial compensation to generations of dissatisfied world language students. If the case is successful, thousands of teachers, administrators and school district officials will be held liable for failing to deliver quality instruction and ordered to pay multiple billions of dollars to students that did not acquire language they could use in the real world. Legal experts believe that school districts may be ordered to pay up to $130,000.57 for each affected student. Lawyers seek to prove beyond a [...]

By Bryce Hedstrom|2019-04-07T20:06:31-06:00April 7th, 2019|Categories: Fake News & Satire, Growth & Change, Issues in Second Language Education, Satire|Tags: Acquisition|0 Comments

HOW TO USE “CONEXIONES”

Mike Peto wrote this blog about how he uses "Conexiones" in his classroom--as a break from fiction and to acknowledge the interests of all students. Conexiones by Bryce Hedstrom A collection of short, non-fiction entries that excite a different kind of reader People sometimes ask me how I keep students from getting bored of my schtick creating class stories day after day. The key, of course, is that I am not doing the same thing every day. On some days we create class stories together, some days I tell a fable, some days we discuss the plot of short video clips [...]

By Bryce Hedstrom|2017-10-11T13:22:12-06:00May 7th, 2017|Categories: Geography, Growth & Change, Reading|0 Comments

LANGUAGE MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Here is an article I wrote for Language Magazine http://languagemagazine.com/2017/04/inspiration-live-interaction/

By Bryce Hedstrom|2017-04-19T11:11:22-06:00April 19th, 2017|Categories: Growth & Change, Innovation, Teacher Training|0 Comments

THEORIES? WE AIN’T GOT NO THEORIES!

“The overwhelming majority of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do in the classroom.” —Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards, p. 10 This quote challenges me to evaluate why I am doing what I am doing as I plan and teach. Am I making it up as I go along or can I describe how each of my lessons relates to theories of learning? Certainly teaching is both art and science, but according to Kohn, far too often we fall short in the theory realm. There are tested theories of learning that [...]

By Bryce Hedstrom|2018-01-16T12:44:39-06:00March 24th, 2017|Categories: Growth & Change, Satire, SLA Theory, Uncategorized|0 Comments

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF SO YOU CAN TEACH

In the course of one week, years ago, I heard two wildly different comments. The first comment was from a highly respected colleague that had just built a house with a special alcove in the bedroom where she could sit and grade papers all night. Every. Night. (cue horror movie music). There was a big comfy chair with short tables on either side. In pile and out pile. "Here is where I spend most of my time," she said. She diligently corrected errors each night and handed those red marked papers back to students the next day. Every. Day. The [...]

By Bryce Hedstrom|2017-10-11T13:22:12-06:00January 25th, 2017|Categories: C.I. Skeptics, Growth & Change, Teacher Tips|Tags: Comprehensible Input-based teaching, Teacher Training|0 Comments

FREE READING SUCCESS

This is the book checkout form for my Spanish classes for the first full week of school. Students are checking out books because they want to read them on their own at home. They get little to no credit for this--just the pleasure of reading a good book and my respect. I tell them over and over and in many different ways that this is different from most of the other reading they are asked to do in school. This is reading for pleasure. Reading for fun. Reading because you want to. For this kind of reading they need to [...]

By Bryce Hedstrom|2017-10-11T13:22:13-06:00August 26th, 2016|Categories: Books, Growth & Change, Light Reading, Reading|0 Comments