The assignment for my Advanced Expression class (2nd to last before my Master’s is done!) is to plan a lesson in which your students learn or practice/develop their ability to write a description or narrate a story. We’re to tie it to a couple of the new Common Core Essential Read more…
My COMPASS Lab usually gets to choose what to blog about day to day, but today is not just any day. Up until now, we have primarily focused on getting used to reading challenging texts of the prose fiction, natural sciences, social sciences, and practical reading varieties.Today’s article would probably Read more…
I get 3 hours today to play around with differentiation and come up with whatever I can think of for my class, with the added benefit of zillions of resources (none of which relate directly to Spanish or world languages of course, but which I can modify) and an expert Read more…
Advanced Topics in Diversity sounds kind of like what I’d like my Spanish classes to be about, but it is, in fact, the name of my first graduate class of the summer. I was wary of the class’s ability to do anything for me that 8 years in the classroom, Read more…
Just as Dra. Moser said: the student writer needs “organizational support”! The example that provided suggestions for segmenting chunks a writing assignment was just what I needed to get started! With the format that included a context/set-up scenario, followed by a description of the type of text to be produced, Read more…