My goal with the second IPA of a unit is to help students reflect on their final product and how they want it to turn out. Drawing inspiration from Sra. Toth and Sra. Placido’s Kiva videos, I’ve already planted the seed for students to try to convince others to carry Read more…
The goal for this IPA is not just to measure performance, but also to find the right resource to inspire my students to inspire others. Here’s how. Finding the right infograph I can find SO MANY AUTHENTIC INFOGRAPHS that my students can understand halfway through their first semester of Spanish! Read more…
Ayudando Ando sent me a list of over 50 things that the rural mountain school they sponsored needs: Of course we couldn’t get all 50+ things on the list (much less ship them). But we could use that list as a starting point for our project. And as a perfect excuse Read more…
Remember those playground interviews I conducted while I was in Perú this summer? I decided the second IPA of the year–the first with listening–was the perfect time to debut them. Now I can’t share the videos themselves, but there are a lot of ways that anyone could collect a similar Read more…
I needed a school supply story to provide some context for vocabulary we’ll need as we collect school supplies to ship to a rural school in Colombia through Ayudando Ando, and so I thought I’d walk you through my Alphabet Soup steps for writing a unit story as I made one. 1. Read more…
TPaCK: Three ingredients blend for masterful instruction.[image from Umpqua Dairy] Pinnacle Personalized my Learning yesterday! I took a quiz built with a few Google Sheets formulas and Google Add-Ons (Copydown and AutoCrat), and it told me what I needed work on! Apparently I needed work on understanding the TPaCK framework 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…
lckillian…MrsH_English…Huerter0…SraH_Espanol…Sra. Spanglish I graduated with a BS and thought I was an English teacher. I got Spanish certification and became a Spanglish teacher. I moved and quit teaching English (job availability, you know). I got my first English I class on top of 2 Spanish I classes and 2 Spanish Read more…