Tag: Grades

Last Day Reflections – what I learned

It was the last day of this current school year with students.  Mid-morning, I scanned final grades to insure that there would be no surprises for parents or students.  One of my sweet 6th-grade boys’ over all semester percentage showed him to be one point under a B. Completing our last marking period with a… Read More Last Day Reflections – what I learned

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Kids’ L2 speaking and how it emerges

Listening to Professor Bill Van Patten’s weekly podcast on L2 (2nd language acquisition) really helps me think correctly about how I plan and conduct my middle school French classes. Van Patten explains that through comprehensible input a mental representation of the target language begins to form in the mind. What qualifies as ‘comprehensible input’?  It is language (in my… Read More Kids’ L2 speaking and how it emerges

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