Learn a Target Language

• Learn to understand, speak, read, and write the Target Language
• Experience TPR Storytelling® from the vantage point of a student
• Observe the pacing, techniques, and questioning that make TPR Storytelling® so effective.

The Three Steps of TPR Storytelling®

• Experience the three steps as a student
• Practice the three steps in small groups
• Determine activities that enhance each step

Second language acquisition theory

• Understand the difference between acquisition and learning
• Learn why acquisition trumps learning
• Find out which teaching practices enhance acquisition
• Discover when, how, and why to teach grammar for the best results

TPR Storytelling tool: questioning

• Learn how to make 12 questions from one statement
• Practice “circling”
• Make a circling script for your own needs
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Practice circling

• In a variety of situations, for different levels
• Combine PQA and circling

The Power of Reading

• Why reading is the most important tool
• The four essential reading practices
• Teaching techniques, discussion techniques
• Why translation is so effective
• Reading improves vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and composition
• Why some common teacher behaviors are NOT beneficial

Homework

• Ideas for homework
• How to use homework to enhance learning
• How to assign homework that does not exhaust the teacher
• How homework can help you teach better

Assessment

• How assessing helps you teach better
• How to create quizzes, tests, and exams
• How to grade writing assignments and essays
• What a proficiency assessment is

Make Grammar Meaningful

• How to teach grammar so that all students can improve their accuracy
• The natural order of acquisition
• How to test grammar
• Why the commonly-taught grammar syllabus fails students
• Effectively intersperse grammar lessons in reading and stories

Advanced TPR Storytelling

• Advanced grammar for upper levels
• Questioning adjustments for upper levels
• Using the barometer student to improve instruction
• Teach to the eyes
• How pauses and pacing affect student performance

Classroom management

• The importance of student-teacher relationship
• How to teach so that “discipline” is not necessary.
• Use of eye contact, personalization, and proximity
• The barometer, the super-star and the “sparkler”