I just completed a wonderful skype conference with Michele’s group in Alaska!
I was a bit nervous, never having done a presentation via skype before, but I’m very excited to say that it went pretty well!
I had a great time with the folks in Alaska and I hope they did too!
Thanks, Michele and her gang!
Thanks for attending my presentation on my adaption of Ben Slavic’s “Circling with Props.” I hope that it inspired you to go “whole hog” in the target language with your classes starting on day one of level 1.
Here’s the link to the PowerPoint presentation I used during the presentation: http://teachforjune.com/docs/circling-with-pictures-jul09-ntprs.pdf
If you have any questions or comments about the presentation, please don’t hesitate to comment below!
Thanks!
Scott
In PQA, I always try to remember to take the first bit of information that lends itself to being bent into something weird and I go with it. I push it, if I have to, but generally, if the kids are doing their job of supplying cute answers, and if I am doing my job of circling creative questions, we can quickly get into something interesting.
This means that if I found out during PQA that Jenny has two guinea pigs, I just leave the direct questioning of Jenny and instead ask the class about these rodents. Jenny is too “close” to her little darlings to make up weird stuff about them.
But the class is not! So I would just stop the discussion about Jenny’s rodents, and start one about an imaginary rodent. We don’t want to offend Jenny. To heck with Jenny—talking to her is keeping everything unintentionally too real. I try instead with: Class, there was a guinea pig!
Although I have been using TPRS® for the past six years and have had excellent results, this year, I have had the best results ever in a level-one class! My Spanish 1s are learning at a far greater rate than ever before and have been understanding Spanish since day one!
All of this thanks to Ben Slavic‘s “Circling with Balls.”
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