The best reason to present at conferences is that people with great ideas come to you. I mean, sure, you get to gather your thoughts on your own work, maybe show off a little, but if you are presenting something, people who are interested in what you’re interested have a Read more…
I think I may be doing something right! The TCI/TPRS storyasking approach seems to be complementing my Project-Based Learning approach nicely, as students become more familiar with the vocabulary and structures we’re working with, and they are engaging more easily in interpersonal discussion as a class. Here’s how it’s gone Read more…
I want to combine the principles of PBL and TPRS, so I have written a story about trash in preparation for a unit on saving the Earth. Students will be working in groups to make a plan to reduce the impact of one material that negatively affects the environment (you Read more…
Download the rubric free at TPT! When some of the strongest personalities in the class end up in the same group–by choice or by chance, discussing their contributions to the project can be touchy, or even explosive. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, I’ve had just such a Read more…
Maybe it’s the honeymoon phase talking…or the small classes…or the weather delays. Still, I feel like I’ve discovered the cure for the common class! Well, for my common class. I finally feel like I’m headed in the right direction and pointing my kids that way too! I attribute this honeymoon high to Read more…
I have to hook students from the start, and I have to do it without letting any English intrude if possible. I can phrase my driving questions in simple enough Spanish, with generous servings of cognates and such. I can even find authentic texts for maximum thematic contextual experiences. But Read more…
I’ve tried to stay afloat, reading a textbook, starting a master’s program in Spanish instruction, poring over lists of authentic texts and designing new units. Now I can breathe, but I’m moving in circles. I’ve been teaching Spanish for 5 years, but it seems I was only in the kiddie pool until Read more…
I aspire to make my TPR as good as Lara’s one day, but I was confused by what she’d told me versus what I saw. She said that she made the gestures up with the kids, but then demonstrated gestures she’d already made up. I think I like that better, Read more…