After iFLT this summer, I was ready to sprint back to the drawing board. I needed a good solid month to just sketch, doodle, redraw EVERYTYHING. I got a week. And two completely new preps complete with two completely new LMS platforms. So this year has been a bit of 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’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…