It was certainly a busy few days and as I'm sitting in a really great session on Common Core and TPRS, I realized that if I don't get it down now, I don't know that I will.
Tuesday and Wednesday were similar in that, as someone on Intermediate track, I spent most of the day listening to people talk about their "style" of TPRS and the different thoughts and philosophies that they have on it. I thought it was extremely useful because, as many people are noting, they have been watching these "masters" (such as Blaine Ray) and feel like, "That is SO not me." I think the key to sticking with TPRS is identifying, recognizing, and trusting your professional teaching self to make decisions that you feel are best for your classroom. Mira Canion (who is amazing and bitingly witty) had a really great demo where she noted that all we ever see at conferences is the "easy stuff." I have seen twenty million lessons on "tiene." So she took suggestions of things we found hard to teach, and allowed herself to get stuck in PQA, and we problem solved on how to get out of it. It was extremely useful.
Wednesday (yesterday) and today, I have been shifting from lots of questioning and circling and basically steps 1 and 2 of TPRSing to reading. I love the reading aspect of TPRS and I think it's really going to take off this year in my classroom of 5th graders who have had Spanish since K.
I'll report back tonight with reflections on today as well!
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