I assessed my students’ proficiency in interpretive reading, interpersonal speaking, and presentational writing earlier in the semester with their first Integrated Performance Assessment. I think we’re all feeling pretty good about their reading about now (although some need a little work on their portfolio evidence still), so I’m switching out […]
My students are trying to inspire eight-year-olds to read in Spanish, and I’m trying to help my students increase their target language proficiency at the same time. So early in the unit, I wanted to set up a sort of IPA pre-test to establish where they are just starting the semester, so […]
¿Cómo podemos inspirar los niños a leer? I’m teaming up with my buddy a county over to get kids to want to read–especially in Spanish! Little Free Libraries are all over, even in Spanish-speaking countries! It started with a more local librarian amiga working on a Little Free Libraries. I […]
I know my goal for the year is to focus more on Less, but my portfolio process demands a little bit of both. And so, after hours days weeks of retooling, I am once again overhauling what portfolios look like in my Spanish classes: MORE – proficiency expectations: we’re gonna […]
They say less is more, and it is: more accessible, more manageable, and more effective. So my word for 2015 is LESS. It took me years to accept and embrace this concept when it comes to my teaching. I always wanted to COVER everything. I was not necessarily as obsessive […]
To compile a list of what worked and what didn’t and begin to develop a plan for improvement, I promised to try not to cry myself to sleep when I polled Spanish I about their Top 5 and Worst 5 activities from class this semester. Of course I also swore […]
ACTFL 2014 was full of powerful learning and powerful connections. It’s not so much that I learned anything new as I felt previous learning reinforced and my resolve to move forward strengthened. Just being around people doing such progressive and pro-active things with their students and their practice overall has […]