Last year, I decided to stop giving my students warnings about when they were going to be tested, and I'm just giving assessements impromptu. Possibly more importantly, I also don't tell them that it is a test.
At the very beginning, the kids were really suspicious, and my administrator warned me that there was going to be blowback from parents, but I never heard a peep from a single parent. And what actually happened with the kids was this:
Friday, August 12, 2016
Practicing the Past Tense
I generally hold off on the past tense until the second year to give the kids some real time to get comfortable with the present. I use it all the time, but I don't 'actively teach' it.
So we've just begun it. Some of the more difficult things are:
1. remembering the weirdness with forms, especially since the patterns aren't necessarily immediately noticeably consistent.
2. visualizing the purposes for each of those tenses.
3. hearing the purposes of each of those tenses.
So to combat those, I did the following:
So we've just begun it. Some of the more difficult things are:
1. remembering the weirdness with forms, especially since the patterns aren't necessarily immediately noticeably consistent.
2. visualizing the purposes for each of those tenses.
3. hearing the purposes of each of those tenses.
So to combat those, I did the following:
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