A night on the town

Those of us that went to Orlando last week met for supper and to trade info from the workshops we went to. It was so interesting to hear what the highlights were.

It made me wish the administrators would see this in action. Here we are on a vacation day meeting voluntarily to talk about what we learned. That means this is much more important than just a quick trip to Florida.

Anyway - one of the ah ha moments for me was... so many of the suggestions given for teaching a foreign language totally apply to teaching anything. For example, Susie shared a bunch of activities to get kids talking. One of them is for each student to write a question on a piece of paper - then the music starts and kids trade papers with as many people as they can. When the music ends - they have to answer that question.
What a great way to review for an topic!!

It makes me wonder why we get so tangled up in the time spent for teaching a language - I mean, if kids are using their brains and applying what they are learning -isn't that what we want. In Elementary school -does the content really matter that much? I wonder...

It sounds like our Arabic days are numbered...nothing official, but.
I guess we'll wait and see...