TPRS teachers are increasingly worried about being evaluated using the Danielson rubric. There is some reason for this. TPRS teachers are focused on providing input for acquisition — and we do that by making things comprehensible. The Danielson rubric is not complicated if you take it apart bit by but, but on the whole, it […]
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TPRS and Danielson: Domain #1
Posted by Terry Waltz on October 26th, 2012
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Tags: Administrators, Danielson, Evaluation 
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Posted by Terry Waltz on July 17th, 2012
Quick math quiz: when is 85% greater than 100%? When the 85% is Chinese delivered through comprehensible input, and the 100% is Chinese that is just…delivered. Every year, the comments from evaluators about TPRS are the same: “too much English!” “You didn’t stay in Chinese 90% of the time!” Now, aside from arguments of how […]
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