Do they honestly believe we don’t know the difference? Do they think we can’t tell? The truth is that they are they’re probably just kind of doing and not really thinking about you at all. But they do have reasons:.
It may be the most dangerous option outside of 100% business-as-usual. My daughter’s school may have called the FIRST DAY to let us know 2 employees had tested positive. But overall, the first week was not nearly the horror show Read more…
“A thread is a clear connection between a main theme and every conversation that follows.” Matthew R. Kay, Not Light, but Fire. Chapter 3 set me off in a timely tangent, preparing for teaching in the time of Corona. What thread would tie my Spanish 1 courses together? What worthy theme would logically, and naturally, relate to whatever we learn–to the deeper purpose of even LEARNING a language? I brainstormed a list of about 11 questions that I thought could really matter, really connect the whole experience. But I came back to one and brainstormed some more…
Alternate title: “Data Nerd Stuff.” Brace yourselves.So shortly before the official decision to go hybrid, my district sent out a survey for all Spanish teachers to list their Top 10 content/skills/standards for the level(s) they teach in order to prepare learning plans for the district. This was my chance!
Aside from the in-home convenience and the plethora of topics we got to explore in our 10 hours together, here are a few other things I LOVED about finally setting up a PBLL workshop webinar…
I have been making videos with Adobe Spark with photos I just happened to have. Those have GOT to be getting boring, kitties and puppies or no. I want to entice more students to engage with this extra practice, and how better to do it than with their peers and THEMSELVES?
I’m not gonna lie, this remote learning situation took me all the WAY back to the drawing board. I couldn’t think of a single thing that I was going to do that would actually be worth trying to do with Read more…
I knew Duolingo would be the winner in my Google Classroom poll, but a surprisingly close second was the option with a choice of Duolingo or Señor Wooly PLUS an optional daily video/reading. (No one, literally NO ONE picked “optional Read more…
I have been wondering if Tiktok might be an even more effective tool for connecting–not only language with the visual, but also with the students who almost unanimously voted this app their favorite at the beginning of the year. So, here are some ideas I had as I start to experiment.
Y’all. I stopped reading For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood when I took the job in suburbia. My new school is the ethnic inverse of the Charlotte magnet school where I taught for one measly year. Honestly, Suburbia Read more…