I was delighted to be asked to contribute an article to
“The Gattegno Effect: 100 Voices on One of History’s Greatest Educators”,
which was published by Educational Solutions in 2011.

Here is the article:
gattegno-tribute-rosie-mcandrew

For those unfamiliar with Gattegno’s Silent Way of Teaching Languages,
I’ll add a couple of details here to clarify references in the article itself.

(By the way, please note that the data shown in the diagrams below 
will be easier to view on a desktop than on a small screen…)

• The Rods – these are a set of Cuisenaire rods,
  initially designed for teaching Maths,
  which Gattegno adapted as tool to represent words, phrases, ideas,
  and elements of grammar, syntax or pronunciation.

A series of colour charts:  Continue reading →