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Month: September 2015

Video from iFLT 2015

Mike Coxon filmed and posted a 7 minute segment of my Spanish 2 Learning Lab at iFLT 2015 and posted it for your viewing pleasure. It starts out a little slow (I think this was right at the start of Day

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Training Your Quiz Writer

Melissa commented on the Setting Up Student Jobs post about the job of Quiz Writer. This is the person who helps you by writing a true/false quiz during PQA or a story so that you can be ready in the

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Setting Up Circling With Balls

Setting Up Circling With Balls

In addition to Bryce Hedstrom’s Persona Especial, I use Ben Slavic’s Circling With Balls (CWB) activity to personalize the classroom. Today, on day 6 , I began this activity by asking students to draw some of their favorite things on

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Teach Them to Long for the Sea

Teach Them to Long for the Sea

If you want to build a ship, don’t gather people together to collect wood and son’t asign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry This quote

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Setting up Student Jobs

Setting up Student Jobs

On the third day of classes I began setting up student jobs. I started with these six jobs: the Bouncer, the seating chart person, the personal assistant, the secretary, the note taker, and Donald Trump. Bouncer/el portero: this person is responsible

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This is What Really Matters.

There has been a torrent of activity on many TPRS and TCI forums of late. It seems this year a levee has broken and a flood of professional language educators has courageously taken a dip. I previously echoed Bob Patrick’s

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INSPIRING

Though there are many languages I’m eager to discover, German has never been one. Yet as a beginning German student, I found myself drawn in and very eager to keep learning! Our class readings have emphasized the importance of narrative form and emotional investment for connecting students to lessons and helping them create meaning. I thought this was a bit unimpressive. However, it only took the briefest experience as your student for me to see otherwise. I’m grateful for the opportunity you gave us to sit on the other side of the desk and try being beginners again.

Elizabeth Workshop Participant

MENTORING

I am without appropriate words to express how grateful I am for Grant's investment into my teaching career. I feel that I have been encouraged, stretched, challenged, supported, enlightened, and more. He is a wonderful mentor and colleague.

Laura Abuhl Spanish Teacher

LEADING

I have directed the iFLT Conference for several years, and 2015 was the first year we have ever had to turn students away! We had a waiting list of students who wanted to take classes, and that is a huge testament to Grant’s universal success in the classroom, his professional relationship with his colleagues and his stellar reputation in the community as an advocate and a catalyst for highly effective, all-inclusive language instruction.

Carol Gaab President, TPRS Publishing, Inc. / Director of iFLT

GROWING

Grant knows the value of taking risks, and his growth is the result of unmistakable passion and an incredible work ethic.

Steve Hilton Ceramics Professor, Midwestern State University

Grant is one of us that has worked hard over the years to develop his craft–and that can give all of us hope that we can get better too.

Bryce Hedstrom Teacher Trainer
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