Tomorrow I will start my journey on my own. My goal is to teach 3 structures. I'm going to start off tomorrow by circling and doing some PQA with my kids using these structures. You can find more info on circling here and on PQA here.
The good thing about both of these techniques is that it involves a lot of repetition of the structure so the students have an easier time acquiring it. PQA is great because it makes it relevant to them. I always find myself struggling with PQA and coming up with questions to ask my students to keep conversation in the target language going and to keep it interesting to them all at the same time. It's definitely a skill I'm working on. I think it becomes more natural of a process the more you do it. It's incredible to see some of the teachers who are practiced, like Ben Slavic, (did I already mention I got to observe him? i did? i'm just bragging you say? let's move on) do some of these techniques. You just watch and hope that someday you can get to the kind of level they're at and your students can be at the level that their students are.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Happy Monday!
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