Charlottesville, VA
Look at these adorable teachers. In case you can’t tell, they are in a helicopter! Three days of TPRS, reading, upper levels, assessments. What fun! It was such a cool bunch of high-quality, fully fluent, mutually supportive teachers. They teach Japanese, Chinese, Latin, as well as French, Spanish, and German. There was a contingent of prospective student teachers from the methods teacher Ruth Ferree of the University of Virginia. I tried out a practice teaching format the first two days. I also showed how to do an embedded reading. It was a nice group for me to try out some new things.