by Terry Waltz | Jul 22, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, General, Methods, Outside Forces
Don’t get me wrong. I like octopi perfectly well. Seeing one up close was a highlight of the one-and-only, will-never-do-that-again time I went scuba diving in Hawaii. (Turns out I have a few claustrophobia issues…) It wasn’t a very big one, of...
by Terry Waltz | May 27, 2017 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, Methods, Outside Forces
Advocates of StoryListening (having students simply listen to stories, without comprehension checks or repetition of new language) typically report that “I feel it’s great” or “I just know they understand”. But from a factual perspective,...
by Terry Waltz | Dec 9, 2016 | Methods, Outside Forces, Speaking/Listening
On a teachers’ discussion group, the question recently came up: Any suggestions for teaching numbers up to 100? I know they can naturally come up in stories…but I feel like it doesn’t happen often enough and doesn’t regularly cover every...
by Terry Waltz | Oct 13, 2016 | Drift / Is This TPRS?, Methods, Outside Forces
I would normally not quote a person’s writing so extensively, but since my responses (two, on two different days) to Mr. Slavic’s post on Facebook were summarily deleted, this is the material I was responding to — this morning. (Apparently all my...
by Terry Waltz | Sep 20, 2016 | General, Outside Forces
On a discussion group, a teacher recently made a comment something more or less like: My 8th grade dance students have been invited to participate in a countywide dance judging contest. You know, the ones where they have to judge dancers on twenty dimensions of...
by Terry Waltz | Sep 17, 2016 | General, Outside Forces
Pairwork. Mmm. Soooo good (say the administrators and observers). Students working together, taking responsibility for their learning, in a student-centered environment. (Whether or not these are really true is up for grabs. But we digress.) It’s like that cup...
