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back to Home ** Resources ** //**We are each other's best resources!** // Share, stay in touch, visit each other's classes, get together to practice and coach, organize a gathering for local teachers, present at state and regional language association events. Share on moreTPRS, TPRSTalk or this Wiki. //**How do I explain Story-Based Language Teaching to my colleagues and administrators?** // Here's an article by Carol Gaab that gives a great overview of TPRS. Here's a report on current TPRS research. //**Where can I find good story-based curriculum materials?** // Check Curriculum and Materials on this Wiki

//**How can I continue learning?** //

**Connect with other story-based language teachers:**

Join these listservs: [|MoreTPRS] and [|TPRSTalk] (both free)

The Yahoo MoreTPRS list also has subgroups, such as TPRSEnglish for ESL teachers, ElementaryTPRS, En español TPRS, TPRS Curriculum, and TPRS Music

**Look for other workshops, webinars, online resources:** Check Upcoming Events on this wiki Blaine Ray, Von Ray: Blaine Ray Workshops <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carol Gaab, [|TPRS Publishing] webinars and workshops <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scott Benedict, [|Teach for June] Webinars and Webversity courses. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Janice Holter Kittok, [|Rethinking How We Teach] Workshops with BER <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">FluencyFast language classes, using comprehensible input strategies <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chalkboard Productions webinars <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Albany Language Learning workshops (especially Mandarin) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">CiCS Comprehensible input Coaching & Support, Albany, NY <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">TPRS of NJ summer workshops

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Take advantage of what others share online** //(alphabetical by teacher name):// <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Scott Benedict's Handouts and Resources on TeachforJune.com <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow Laurie Clarcq's Hearts for Teaching blog and check out the blogs she follows <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Laurie Clarcq's categorized vocabulary proficiency grids (in English, for all languages) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Laurie Clarcq's Embedded readings handout from NTPRS 2011 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Susie Gross Handouts <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bess Hayles's blog: Mme Hayles and the TPRS Experiment <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go to Bryce Hedstrom's website <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kate Hunt's Chants for success from NTPRS 2011 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stephen Krashen's [|website] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Michael Miller's website and links <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check out Kristy Placido's TPRS Links <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deb Read's Shared Resources at ChalkBoard Productions <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Karen Rowan's outline and links at TPRStories.com <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow Ben Slavic's blog ($4.95/month, but worth it) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ben Slavic posters & handouts (free) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow Michele Whaley's TPRS blog and TPRS ideas and resurces <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thomas Young's wiki LanguageAcquisitionResources and blog Language Thoughts

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">TPRS of NJ shared resources <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Download the FluencyFast Technique Bank on pp. 37-54 of the Winter 2011 Issue of the IJFLT <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Subscribe to the International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, IJFLT (free) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the session and workshop handouts from NTPRS 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Go to conferences:**
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2013 **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thursday-Sunday, November 21-24: [|TPRS Sessions] ****<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> at ACTFL Conference, Orlando FL **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">january 24th & 25th: Terry Waltz at Westtown School <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">July 5-12: TPRS Workshop in Agen, France <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">July 15-July 18: iFLT/TPRS Publishing Conference, Denver, CO <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">July 21-July 25: [|National TPRS Conference 2013] in Chicago, IL
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2014 **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look for TPRS or TCI strands at local, state or regional conferences: NECTFL, ACTFL, FLENJ, PSMLA, MFLA, GWATFL, NYSAFLT


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check Upcoming Events on this wiki **