(Download this as a pdf here.) Showing approval and giving positive feedback are important skills for teachers. Students cannot get too much praise. It is a way to engage and connect that is often overlooked. Students also need to learn how to praise and encourage one another. There is [...]
Start your students off right by teaching them effective reading strategies with these bookmarks. Download the bookmarks here to hand out to your students. They will remind kids how to read in another language: Just keep reading. Too many language learners stop to look up every unknown word. Terrible [...]
THIS IS ABOUT LATIN CLASS BUT THE ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS APPLY TO ALL WORLD LANGUAGES Last year my daughter started a classical school in Denver and asked me to teach Latin. I didn't know Latin, but I took up the challenge and decided to learn and teach it the [...]
Jonny, a Mandarin teacher who saw my recent presentation on Special Person Interviews, had some questions about the process. We've had a conversation about it and here are the results. Before answering Jonny's questions, I need to make this crucial point: Follow-up questions are the most important part of [...]
David, a successful veteran teacher relatively new to teaching with C.I. writes: Bryce, I am frustrated by the fact that I enter every semester with the good intentions of doing CI. I start, and then I get frustrated as I don't see the results and don't feel skilled enough [...]
This was surprising to me. I had never used flashcards as a teacher, thinking the practice was too old school, too random, too decontextualized, and not hearing based. Even though I have used flashcards myself to learn specialized vocabulary quickly for medical mission trips in Mexico and Guatemala, I [...]