by Terry Waltz | Oct 26, 2012 | Outside Forces
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...
by Terry Waltz | Jul 17, 2012 | Methods, Outside Forces
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!”...
by Terry Waltz | Feb 23, 2011 | General, Methods
A poster on a prominent foreign language teachers’ list recently commented, in the context of a second poster’s question about research comparing methodologies: …while it is difficult to do true scientific research where we isolate one variable, we...
by Terry Waltz | Feb 21, 2011 | Curriculum, Outside Forces
On another List, the cry recently went up from a teacher tasked with writing stuff for a new IB program: I’m having trouble with unit questions (guiding question, essential outcome, enduring understanding). We’re supposed to come up with the big...
