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Simple, slow, fun
My mantra for Spanish 2 is all about simple, slow, and fun. And the underlying foundation of everything I do is showing them that I adore them, and that they are special, and that they CAN DO THIS....
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Creating interactive input by combining resources
If your students are like mine (normal American teens), they are probably a little antsy right now. We are halfway through the semester, a week away from Thanksgiving, they are still hyped up on...
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Numbered Heads Together
We are reading Noches misteriosas en Granada in Spanish 2 right now, and we needed a little ease back into school after Thanksgiving and a little review before we moved forward with the reader. This...
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My scope and sequence
Carrie Toth recently published a great set of documents of her scope and sequence of units and activities for each of her classes, and it made me realize that I have not updated my own “What I teach”...
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Class jobs
A staple in elementary classrooms since forever, class jobs have in recent years been increasingly part of world language teachers’ classrooms too! It makes sense! We have pretty intense teaching...
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Songs as a culture hook!
Everyone who knows me knows that I love using music in my classes. The teachers next door and upstairs from me DEFINITELY know it. If the bass is pumping it must be Placido’s class. Music is SO...
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The Spanish Civil War
Some posts I’ve written about teaching the Spanish Civil War in Spanish 4: Art Gallery Final Assessment for the unit Instagram project Timeline Activity
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Bring your classes to life with MUSIC!
I LOVE using music in my classroom every day! It is motivating, cultural, popular, fun, and if you ask my students years later what they loved most about my class they will most likely tell you it was...
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Feet up and feeling “fine” on a Tuesday
Good Lord, people. It is week 6 of school, Homecoming week, and it was 85 degrees today on October 1. In Michigan. With no air conditioning. Did I mention it was Homecoming week? Yesterday was pajama...
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