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My Evolution of Teaching the “Family Unit” 2005: First year teaching. Family unit project: make your family tree in Spanish, talk about it to the class. One student stabs the word “padre” with his pencil so much, he rips thru… Continue Reading →
Voice and Choice! For blog reflections, Please pick 1 per 2 chapters for chapters 3-9- that’s a total of 3 blogs. Post your reflection in comments and they can be separate comments or all in one, whichever fits you best: Answer… Continue Reading →
¿Cómo te llamas? No – Really! Right before school started my colleagues Sam and Robin (@sdeckerlote) mentioned giving “Language” names was a topic in the language community. I laughed – “it’s so fun! My students love it – some beg… Continue Reading →
New to teaching? Mentoring? Have a BFF going into the profession? These are things I have learned over the years to have STOCKED on day 1! Throat lozenges/cough drops: Bringing the teacher voice back is hard on the pipes! Band-aids for… Continue Reading →
Voice and Choice! For blog reflections, Please pick 2-3 in total for chapters 1 and 2, you will reflect in comments and they can be separate comments or all in one, whichever fits you best: Answer a reflection question React… Continue Reading →
When I have students in my middle school classroom, I love looking at them and imagining two things: What they were like as a baby in their parents’ arms, and Who they will become as adults It makes me invest… Continue Reading →
This is the end of my first year in a new district. It is very different from all the schools I have taught in – especially the size! My first school graduated about 50 kids a year and I WAS… Continue Reading →
Teaching language is so much fun – but sometimes I feel stuck in lower level Blooms!! Recall, remember, memorize, label, match again and AGAIN AND AGAIN!!! REMEMBER When I first started using Quizlet, Kahoot, Gimkit and a few other tech… Continue Reading →
My review of a few tech tools that were new to me in 2019 that I really enjoyed in my Spanish classroom – these ones are more for vocab building (think lower level Blooms unless you are doing circumlocution/word association),… Continue Reading →
This school year (18-19) was a huge shift to a much more language rich classroom. Here is my roundup of what I felt the pros and cons were (so far): PROS: Students are much more confident in a room full… Continue Reading →