Name: Total Physical Response for Bilingual/ESL Students
Start: 2026-08-07T11:15:00-0500
End: 2026-08-07T11:55:00-0500

Total Physical Response for Bilingual/ESL Students

Friday August 7, 2026 11:15am - 11:55am CDT

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TPR stands for Total Physical Response. It is an instructional strategy that teaches language or vocabulary through physical movement. TPR is highly effective for English Language Learners (ELLs) and bilingual students but is also an effective strategy for the monolingual classroom.

How This Strategy Supports Language Development? When using TPR, teachers model an action for each new vocabulary or phrase or ask students to create an appropriate gesture for key terms and phrases. Then, students respond to commands using that word or phrase by doing the action or gesture.

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Mayra Velez

DL teacher third grade, igo Elementary

This is year 22 as a Bilingual Educator for me. I have a M.Ed. in educational technology and love all things techy. I'm a Google certified trainer and I believe in working smarter not harder. I use data to drive my instruction and have seen my students have academic success with this... Read More →