If you spend your days reading teaching blogs and connecting with other teachers on Twitter, I’m sure you can relate to my total and utter Spanish student nerdiness. I would spend hours on my bed practicing conjugations and memorizing vocabulary, but when I think back to school, I’m sad to Read more…
Projects are not Project-Based Learning. My amigas at Secondary Spanish Space invited me to contribute a post about what PBL is–and is not–in language classes. Here’s a sample: Posters and videos and in-class presentations make learning tangible. They can become treasured artifacts of growth. On display, they Read more…
Ashley Uyaguari is one of my #langchat tweeps and an innovative blogger at deskfree.wordpress.com! There are more and more cool podcasts out there for us language teachers, but knowing that Ashley and Becky(#langchat AND #LangCamp tweep extraordinaire) are behind this one makes me extra excited for it to happen! Find Read more…
I have the pleasure of picking Dr. Karen Tharrington’s brain regularly on #langchat, and once as a co-presenter for SCOLT! @kltharri is a Senior Lecturer and Methods Instructorat North Carolina State University and an advocate for online Professional Learning Networks, technology and online learning, as well as future language teachers Read more…
Putting on symposiums for Spanish teachers is a fabulous direction for textbook companies to go in this day and age. And getting leaders in the field like Martina Bex to take part? You cannot go wrong. And if it means I get to take part? All the better. So when I got Read more…
Each week of the ASU Summer Institute 2016, I have featured ideas from amigos I met through Summer Institute in years past. This week, Linda Carrillo helps answer the question, “How do I start an after-school club focused on cultural exploration?“ I wanted to start a middle school club. My Read more…
Each week of the ASU Summer Institute 2016, I’ll be featuring ideas from amigos I met through Summer Institute in years past. This week, Jeff Pageau helps answer the question, “How do I develop a student immersion weekend?“ In spite of our efforts to create authentic language experiences to engage our Read more…
Each week of the ASU Summer Institute 2016, I’ll be featuring ideas from amigos I met through Summer Institute in years past. This week, Stephanie Schenck helps answer the question, “How do I start a summer language camp run by my students?“ One of the very best things I’ve done as Read more…
I owe a lot of my success as a Spanish teacher to an excellent MA program in the mountains of North Carolina. I took some hybrid courses during the school year, but I earned most of my MA in Romance Languages (Spanish, K-12) over three summers at the Summer Graduate Read more…
I’m excited to have been asked to contribute a language teacher’s perspective on technology for the CUE Blog (thanks for the referral, Sra. Rhodes!) Here’s an excerpt: What a time to be alive! The whole world is inside our classrooms every day. I like to pretend it’s me bringing it to Read more…