Category: Introduction

What Does It Mean to Wander but not be Lost?
5 Key Principles

Do you wander?

Why do you wander? Do you wander because you are lost? Or do you wander because you are exploring?

What does it mean to wander?

Not all those who wander are lost

observes Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, talking about “Strider”, the Ranger who is Aragorn, true king of Gondor.

In a society and profession (education) that is obsessed with planning, pre-planning, and even post-planning, with collecting certain kinds of data, and with standardizing procedures, performance, and people, those who don’t “fit in” – who don’t conform to the dominant paradigm – often seem to wander and may be perceived as lost by those in the Continue reading “Wandering Without Being Lost”

Welcome to The Intuitive Language Teacher, a place for teachers, especially language teachers, who want to change students’ lives.

I’m Robert Harrell. I teach German in a public high school, write books, and travel. For several years, I have used Comprehensible Input in my classes, and now I want to inspire and empower other language teachers to bring an intuitive approach to classroom instruction and be able to explain that approach to others.

The purpose of TILT (The Intuitive Language Teacher) is to Continue reading “Welcome to The Intuitive Language Teacher!”