Page Text: Teacher Training
I am driven to provide meaningful and relevant language acquisition instruction to EACH student.
If you’re looking for training in methods and strategies of Comprehensible Input and, further, have a desire to increase enrollment and achievement for ALL your students, together can we spark fire in your world language teachers and rekindle that sense of awe achieved when we see ALL our students achieving.
I offer a variety of reasonably-priced workshops, catered to your institution’s needs, to train world language teachers at any level in your school or district.
Some topics currently offered include:
Understanding the Precepts, Purpose, Process and Power of TPRS ®
Teaching with Comprehensible Input (TCI) – a principled approach that works for the masses
Personalizing Learning, Engaging Learners and Building a Community of One in a TCI classroom
Speaking Before They Can: Using rejoinders for authentic and spontaneous interaction in a communicative classroom
Invert the Pyramid: Use High Frequency verbs and Multiple tenses from Day 1 to facilitate language acquisition for each student
Meeting ACTFL’s 90% Position Statement in All Levels from Day 1
Infusing Comprehensible Reading from Day 1
Selected Recent Presentations and Workshops:
2020