TPRS® 101, Step Five: Strategize

This is the fifth post in the series “TPRS® 101: Teaching Proficiency is Really Simple“. STEP FIVE: STRATEGIZE Now that you have added to your basic understanding of TPRS® and its goals by observing a lesson and debriefing, you are almost ready to try it out for yourself. Well, who knows–maybe you are ready because you’re just that kind of…

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TPRS® 101, Step Three: Observe a TPRS® lesson

This is the third, very delayed, post in the series “TPRS® 101: Teaching Proficiency is Really Simple”. We just moved to a new home and I have been busy packing, unpacking, cleaning, corralling children, and trying to find things that I need. Today, I found my computer! Hooray! Only 349 unread emails…that will be fun to sort…

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TPRS® 101, Step 2: Understand the goal of a TPRS®/CI lesson

This is the second post in the series “TPRS® 101: Teaching Proficiency is Really Simple”. Click here to read other posts in the series. STEP TWO: UNDERSTAND THE GOAL Once you have deciphered the acronyms ‘TPRS®’, ‘CI’, and ‘TCI’, the only thing that I’d recommend doing before heading off to watch a teacher demonstrate a…

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