The workshop was a big success! I had so much fun and met such wonderful people and was so busy keeping everything on track, that I never got around to writing up the adventure as it happened. Martin Anders wrote about it on his blog and for the moretprs forum, as did his colleague David, and I’ve been getting great feedback from the participants, which I’ll get around to sharing with you, one of these days. Forgive me. We’re already planning next year’s workshop, so I’ll get a second chance.
I’m writing this for an English teacher in France. I’ve never met her and I’ve decided not to ask her name, but one of her …
Teachers often discover CI after several years, even many many years, of using other methods. Old habits are hard to break. A question that often comes up s how to transition from former methods to one that stresses Comprehensible Input. Where to find help?
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.
