Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) is a powerful second-language teaching methodology that promotes natural and authentic language acquisition through the co-creation of class stories. This workshop will introduce you to the core skills of TPRS, how to plan lessons for optimum engagement and the basics of assessment. Teaching with TPRS is guaranteed to bring joy and magic to your classroom and allow you to stay in the target language 90% of the time!

Michelle Metcalfe is a well-known TPRS teacher, presenter, trainer and coach. She has presented, coached and trained teachers in TPRS and Comprehensible Input based methodologies throughout BC as well as in the US and elsewhere in Canada. She teaches Spanish 9 to 12 IB at West Vancouver Secondary School and has been teaching exclusively with TPRS and Comprehensible Input since 2010. Michelle is also one of the writers of the BC Core French Curriculum. In her free time Michelle loves to travel, read, cook and dance.

* COVID Protocols permitting, April 26 will be another full day of training. TTOCs will be provided by the Language Coordinator. Please contact the Language Coordinator if you need a TTOC: languagecoordinator@exc.sd73.bc.ca.