About Andrew J. Snider

ANDREW J. SNIDER

Hi, I’m Andrew.

CI Immersion is my complete system for teaching languages through comprehension, meaningful interaction, and repeated exposure to language.

I have developed and refined the system over more than 15 years of classroom teaching. It brings together the routines, approaches, and smaller instructional systems that help me make decisions in the classroom.

Early in my storytelling teaching, I went too fast. Students did well on immediate comprehension quizzes, but later assessments showed they had not retained the language as well as I thought. Watching demonstrations in French, German, and Japanese reminded me how easy it is to get lost as a learner.

I had forgotten what it was like to be on the other side of the lesson. I learned to slow down, ask more questions, and return to familiar language in new ways. Finishing the story was not the goal; extending a conversation that learners could understand was. That experience shaped the repeated listening, reading, and interaction at the center of CI Immersion.

At the center is a belief that comprehension and meaningful communication belong at the heart of language instruction. The work is connecting that belief to what happens each day: the questions we ask, the stories we read, the routines we build, and what we choose to assess.

The system continues to evolve. On the podcast, I explain the instructional system and the choices I make in class. Through professional development, I work with educators to understand these approaches and make them useful in their own classrooms.

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