When I'm honest with myself, I admit that I'm not very good at facilitating PQA (Personalized Question and Answer) off the cuff. PQA is definitely an area of growth for me. I've learned quickly that I need to create context for me to successfully facilitate PQA. One easy way to do this is through class … Continue reading Class survey tasks to create input from discussion.
Category: Language Tasks
Story Choice Boards for Self Directed Reading (FVR)
Offer students a chance to respond to reading with choice that they direct. Use as an emergency sub plan in conjunction with an FVR, SSR or SDR program.
Find Someone Who Task: A simple task to build on classroom community.
Simple language tasks to guide teacher facilitated input in the Latin classroom.
What is communication?
Lately, a lot of conversation about Bill Van Patten's ideas about tasks in the language classroom has popped up in different teaching for acquisition groups, specifically on Facebook. The idea seems to be that we must create reasons for students to communicate in the language in the classroom. A task offers a student a reason to … Continue reading What is communication?
