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Teaching is an incredible profession! The highs are so HIGH, and the lows…so low. There are nights we stay up worrying about students, tough adult interactions, questioning our own instruction…yet they seem to balance out with the moments we connect… Continue Reading →
Getting ready for summative exams? Worried about kids forgetting old material? Don’t let them sneak up on you with my Spanish Class version of #throwbackthursdays #JUEVESotravez. The purpose is simply to dust off the cobwebs and recall old vocabulary they… Continue Reading →
One of my major shifts in my “ed-philosophy” over the years was from viewing kids as students I “controlled” in order to teach them, to working with kids to help them succeed in learning. As a new teacher, I equated… Continue Reading →
How long have you been teaching the language you teach? I’m closing in on 15 years. That’s 20 years since I was being confused with a native speaker, attending a local high school in the suburbs of Madrid. Twenty years… Continue Reading →
“The Language Rich Classroom” Two years ago, I was a stay at home mom and I attended a BUNKO party with a slew of Spanish teachers. Out of the teaching game for a bit, I was stupefied when they… Continue Reading →
I have always done formal speaking assessments on exams, but I have struggled for years to find an easy way to assess in-class speaking. I tried a few systems that were cumbersome and impractical for the ease I needed! In… Continue Reading →
Over the past five years, cellphones in school have become as polarizing as politics. As technology advanced, teachers developed ways to revolutionize learning with personal devices, and before the (amazing) movement towards 1:1 occurred, many teachers started allowing students to… Continue Reading →
My school has a district license for Nearpod. I first saw it in action in a Social Studies classroom (@ashleypowers10) in 2014. At first glance, it seemed like a way to make a lesson more interactive, i.e. you have a… Continue Reading →
I first learned about TPRS in 2005 at a NYSFLT conference. I listened to a story, learned a few words in French, and then learned that TPR was just about as polarizing in the LOTE world as cellphones in school!… Continue Reading →
“That’s just another buzzword”, my very dear friend and former colleague said to me over coffee. I instantly felt defensive. We were talking about personalized learning, and I had read, and really enjoyed, Personalized Learning with Habits of the Mind. I worked… Continue Reading →