Listening has been the biggest struggle for my students for years. I have tried all sorts of tools and topics to engage their ears, but nothing has made them feel as confident as the highlighting activity based on a student suggestion this semester.
I know non-targeted input is all the rage, but frankly, I’m hung up on high-frequency vocab repetition. And the more I can get key words, phrases, and structures stuck in kids’ heads, the more Spanish they can take with them Read more…
My main goal at #ACTFL19 was to just gather as much as I could about interculturality to finally start making heads or tails of what I should be doing and how with my students, and there were three main presentations that helped me sort out where I could start…
I sometimes wonder if I even need Flipgrid. Honestly, I feel like Seesaw can do everything Flipgrid can do better. Almost.
At first, I figured I should pick out some screencaps and have the young ones match captions I translated from the audio to them. Then I got to thinking, “Well, heck, they’ll just read ’em and match ’em.” So THEN I took ANOTHER video and made Spanish captions to go with those screencaps. I was still undecided, so I experimented on my patient and enthusiastic first period guinea pigs with both and ended up with this
Fortunately, I had done some resource gathering for the inquiry phase of the project to equip a local business with children’s menu placemats back in Hawaii. UNfortunately, I hadn’t really fleshed out what I was going to do WITH those resources as of about 5AM Wednesday morning. So here’s the plan I threw together
ALL of my old standbys failed me last year. HARD. For some reason, my promises to make Spanish learning possible, even easy, for the students didn’t seem to reassure or even REGISTER with this completely new set of students. Puedos Read more…
Just as I did with the book clubs, I surveyed my students with a Google Form. I sent the responses to a spreadsheet, and sorted by their reading preferences: most picked alone or in groups. I knew there were some who needed my group anyway
In case you were wondering what kinds of resources I have in my store for the Back to School sale on TeachersPayTeachers, I’ve made a list of links to all of the good stuff! Save up to 25% with the Read more…
He had been looking forward to the French language lab at iFLT for months, poring over French for Dummies to keep out of trouble at school, quizzing the Google Home on phrases he could repeat before bed…but I was eager to see how a master handled his “enthusiasm”…