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NEW: Rejoinder Posters in Chinese, French and German

NEW: Rejoinder Posters in Chinese, French and German

These staple expressions will help your novice learners engage with you in authentic communication so they can help you maintain FLOW in the target language. Students will be empowered to express emotion and opinion and show their true personality with meaningful rejoinders. Now

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Realities Not Normally Seen

Realities Not Normally Seen

Krista Tippett’s show On Being offers us perspectives on spirituality as it manifests in different places, professions and people. Parker Palmer writes regular blog posts for her and, more often then not, they are incredible. This recent post struck me square

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Feedback from Grad Level Methods Class Demo

Feedback from Grad Level Methods Class Demo

For the last 6 years or so, I’ve been asked to demonstrate TPRS and Teaching with Comprehensible Input to graduate level methods courses taught at private universities in the Twin Cities area. One of the classes I’ve been to most

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Laura’s Visit

I already told you about Jessie’s Visit. Laura Abuhl also came to visit recently all the way from North Dakota! She observed for 2 1/2 days! Laura teaches in a private school with smaller class sizes than I have. She teaches

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Right phrase. Right time. Right tone. 

Right phrase. Right time. Right tone. 

A colleague of mine who attended iFLT 15 and observed how I use rejoinders in my classroom just relayed a cute little story that dovetails well with why I teach my students to respond with rejoinders and, in fact, why

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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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