Who is Sabrina Sebban-Janczak?
“She models what it means to care about students and the patience required to teach. “
“She models what it means to care about students and the patience required to teach. “
At the heart of the conference are the language classes where experienced teachers demonstrate how to do a week of Comprehensible Input.
“We sat outside with groups of people we met during the day, sharing meals and drinks, talking about our passion, working with TPRS, laughing, and sometimes getting very personal because these are people you can get close to.”
Language is the lovely, wild flower growing in the forest.
This poster can be downloaded and used to make your expectations visible in the classroom.
“This is a supportive community of teachers who believe our instruction can change individual lives for the better, resulting in greater changes to societies and the world.”
Reader’s Theater is a way of “revisiting” a familiar text that makes it fun and compelling.
Blaine thought his new students were a little bizarre. They were all squirrels and refused to sit in their chairs. Blaine gave them books, but his students ate the books. He gave them worksheets, but they ate the worksheets.
Terry Waltz finds this method quite similar to Cold Character Reading, used with students learning to read Chinese characters.
Every summer for the last ten years something magic has happened in Agen, France. Teachers from around the world have gathered in a friendly little town in southwest France and particpated in what many of them have called a life-changing experience. They come together because they have heard of a different way of teaching languages, a way of creating stories with their students and building a different kind of classroom. They come with open hearts and open minds and they leave with smiles and warm memories and many new friends. That is the magic of Agen.