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Can we teach math using the methods of our evolutionary past?

  09/11/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A review of evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson’s new book discusses this field a little. I hope to read a lot in that area after I (Continue Reading)

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Being interactive without a computer

  09/01/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today I was reviewing their work with new students (Latin Ones) individually. After speaking with me, a girl returned to ask me a question. She (Continue Reading)

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Learning styles

  08/29/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently someone posted that “science” questions the whole concept of specific learning styles. By learning styles, people refer to channels of learning such as auditory, (Continue Reading)

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Now is it time for stupid?

  08/26/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Back to Stupid Some time back I asked when we can start calling people stupid. I’m wondering, after reading several articles by and about education (Continue Reading)

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Coaches do it…..

  08/13/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I thank whoever encouraged Laurie to write this. She puts into this one post all the common sense wedded to academic knowledge everyone in our (Continue Reading)

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Matt Damon’s teacher speech

  08/02/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s a site where you can view and hear Matt Damon’s speech. The one response to it I read on this site was the typical (Continue Reading)

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A 21st Century Skills Map for Saints

  08/02/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I just viewed a “map” of skills, for the 21st century language learner, naturally. Boy! I would love to find a teacher who had all (Continue Reading)

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Pearls of Wisdom

  07/22/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A teacher asked me about what he/she might do about keeping the program going. Here’s what I wrote: Clearly you have done well in recruiting. (Continue Reading)

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Why people hate tprs (just one reason)

  06/18/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s a self-description by the person who wrote the words below:   I’m quite an extreme-acquisitionist hard-liner! 😉   And here is what she wrote: (Continue Reading)

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What are the goals of a Latin class?

  06/07/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The question goes to the material we offer students. Some in the fl teaching community question having 17 year olds delving into the sort of (Continue Reading)

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Two track courses: acquisition & linguistics

  05/11/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I wrote this when I read the post entered below: This is exactly the dividing line and many do not understand the basis of it. (Continue Reading)

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OK, I’m mad.

  05/09/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I built up the Latin program to where this year I started the first year class with 30 students. Next year I have 35 but (Continue Reading)

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How do we get out of this mess?

  05/07/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The mess is the 96% of students who do not become proficient in a fl (from J. Lawson’s article “Does foreign language teaching matter”, published (Continue Reading)

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Protests and what may happen to them

  05/07/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The following two posts came in to a Latin teacher listserv. My responses follow (2 of them): > ARRRGGGGG!!!!   NO MORE EFFING STANDARDIZED TESTS!  DON’T (Continue Reading)

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What happened to error correction?

  04/25/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

What happened to the wide-spread notion that error correction is ineffectual? These two writers are able to go on about it with no consciousness of (Continue Reading)

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Diane’s great show on class size

  04/25/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I just listened for a third time to the Diane Rheme Show (NPR) from March 8 on class size. Great show, but on this third (Continue Reading)

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The Math Problem

  04/24/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Very funny line: “Mighton found that to be effective he often had to break things down into minute steps and assess each student’s understanding at (Continue Reading)

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Nice encounter

  04/23/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A unknown man came to my door on official business and greeted me in Russian! It turns out he recognized my name as his Russian (Continue Reading)

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On Pace

  04/23/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Rachel has pointed out that some students are more receptive than others to instruction in general and to language input in particular. The U.S. adopted (Continue Reading)

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Response to questions from the UK

  04/23/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

  The following is in answer to a question from a UK Latin teacher about who gets into Latin. Perhaps I exaggerate the differences between (Continue Reading)

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Increase in class size

  04/10/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In case I don’t have time to blog further today, let me state here that next year I have 35 students in Latin I. During (Continue Reading)

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Pace and brain cells, a match?

  04/02/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This forum is the one for a broader discussion of what constitutes ability and what constitutes learning, but one poster has pointed out that some students are (Continue Reading)

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Response to FL Annals article by Ping Wu in response to….

  01/12/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Right off the bat, Ping Wu errs in inserting an artificial division among the five goals in ACTFL’s National Standards (actually they are goals, not (Continue Reading)

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