Comprehensible Input

Building a curriculum around just 16 simple verbs can transform your students' proficiency levels and have them communicating like never before.

In this video, I talk about the top 5 comprehensible input mistakes you're most likely making in your CI classroom!

So many teachers stress about writing the targets or standards on the board. They want to be detailed and thorough for their supervisor. But in doing so, they leave out the student which is the whole point. So keep it SIMPLE to make this daily task a non-event.

Do you have trouble remembering the details of your class stories? I know I do! I used to write all the details down on sticky notes and paste them all over my desk until... one day, I come into my classroom and they were all gone! I panicked!

In this video, I talk about 5 ways to start a class story using comprehensible input in the modern language classroom. Each time I ask a story in class with my students, I will use one of these 5 ways to get us into a story quickly and efficiently.

In this episode of Immediate Immersion LIVE! we will talk about absent students, how to work with them, and what make-up work to give.