by Terry Waltz | Mar 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
So we’re doing a class story. The kids are copying the final result off the whiteboard in characters (not without some weeping and moaning, of course. “All those characters?”) The next sentence proposed is “He took his phone out.” The...
by Terry Waltz | Mar 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
So many times it is difficult to “fly under the radar” as a TPRS teacher in a TPRS-unfriendly department. There is a whole lot of pressure to use games, pairwork activities and things like that, most of which involve a) a lot of output that is b) in...
by Terry Waltz | Mar 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
TPRS, that is. I keep being told by well-meaning people that “you have to break up the class period” and “kids can’t concentrate listening to a language for more than 10 minutes”, all that sort of thing. So, every so often, I fall into...
