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So, for three days straight in Latin 1 I did warm-ups metaphrasing noun-adj pairs from the upcoming story followed by identifying case, number, and gender (after metaphrasing). Yesterday I was also evaluated during one of these classes.
After three days of doing this, I was impressed by the number of students that seem to really get this concept of CNG--far better than in previous years. And the other advantage was that it was a way I could sneak in new vocab to preview the story. We were working on "Domitilla cubiculum parat."
Anyway, I ran into the administrator that was evaluating the class later. He said he was really impressed by the number of kids that really did seem to be getting the concepts, even the kids he knew were flakes. :)
This was the first time an administrator observing class stayed for the whole class. I half wondered if he were just enjoying it, or just watching to see whether the flakes would blow their line. Whatever it was, it was doubly nice that he saw something that impressed him and I saw that the kids were really getting CNG.
I have said for a while now that I really like teaching level 1 Latin. I think a lot of people say that because they think it's easy and they don't have to deal with level 3 kids who don't know their stuff. I'd like to think that I'm ALWAYS thinking about the level 3 kids that these level 1 kids will become. I want and need them to get the difficult concepts; I don't want to weed out kids early on by hard grammar concepts explained only so the brainiest can get them.
It's a language, after all!!!!
After three days of doing this, I was impressed by the number of students that seem to really get this concept of CNG--far better than in previous years. And the other advantage was that it was a way I could sneak in new vocab to preview the story. We were working on "Domitilla cubiculum parat."
Anyway, I ran into the administrator that was evaluating the class later. He said he was really impressed by the number of kids that really did seem to be getting the concepts, even the kids he knew were flakes. :)
This was the first time an administrator observing class stayed for the whole class. I half wondered if he were just enjoying it, or just watching to see whether the flakes would blow their line. Whatever it was, it was doubly nice that he saw something that impressed him and I saw that the kids were really getting CNG.
I have said for a while now that I really like teaching level 1 Latin. I think a lot of people say that because they think it's easy and they don't have to deal with level 3 kids who don't know their stuff. I'd like to think that I'm ALWAYS thinking about the level 3 kids that these level 1 kids will become. I want and need them to get the difficult concepts; I don't want to weed out kids early on by hard grammar concepts explained only so the brainiest can get them.
It's a language, after all!!!!
