CSCTFL 2023 – #authres in ADI classrooms!
Using #authres in an Aquisition-Driven Instruction Classroom Last week was a DREAM! From being awarded Ohio Beginner Teacher of the Year for the OFLA organization to having dinner with some of the most incredible people from Kansas, #langhcat, and curriculum companies….I really needed someone to pinch me at times! CSCTFL is hands down the best […]
¿Quién ganó?: Los Premios Grammy
¿Quién Ganó? : Los premios Grammy Late Saturday night I was up making some materials for my upcoming CSCTFL / OFLA presentation on making authentic resources comprehensible. I was looking at elpaís.es at the latest news and saw this incredible article that was about the 2023 Grammy Awards. The article itself wasn’t even one that I would […]
5 Pre-Reading Strategies for World Language
5 Pre-reading Strategies for World Language “I haven’t read a whole book since 6th grade.” “I just used the internet during Covid and didn’t read my books in middle school.” “I hate reading.” “Do we have to read?” Those are the comments I received a few weeks ago when I told my kids they would […]
Project-Based Midterms
Wow, 2 posts in the same week for me is unheard of. I mean really….I am on a roll. I wanted to share some non-traditional assessments that I gave as choices for my midterm this year in Spanish 1. These options were brainstormed by myself, Profe.Zulita, and Musicuentos herself, Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell. I was struggling with […]
Book Clubs in Spanish 1
Book Clubs in Spanish 1 The last three weeks before Christmas break left me in a weird spot in my lessons. We had just finished a unit prior to Thanksgiving break and we only had 12 instructional days before midterms and Christmas break. So…what does one do? I pondered different options and landed on teaching […]
Fall Digest 2022
Fall Digest 2022 Well, my attempt at posting more this Fall was an epic fail thanks to… 1. My flights and layovers during my trip to Spain were not productive due to being extremely sleep deprived! We traveled for over 24 hours on our trip home and it took several days to readjust to the […]
#LangBook Week 2: Input
#LangBook Week 2: Input Welcome back to another #LangBook blog post where I write my thoughts about the book Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition goes to the Classroom by Florencia Henshaw and Maris Hawkins. I couldn’t tweet live this week due to parent-teacher conferences but I didn’t want to miss out on this opportunity for reflection and […]
Game Day: How to facilitate a successful game day in a Novice level classroom.
Game Day: How to Successfully Facilitate a Game Day in a Novice Level Classroom. If I close my eyes and think back to when I was in Spanish class, the fondest memories that I have are from game days. By the time that I was in Spanish 3 and 4, we played games almost every […]
#LangBook Week 1
#LangBook Week 1 On a typical Thursday night, shows penned by Shonda Rhimes are usually filling up my time from 8pm-10pm. Alas, as the price of Hulu Live increased, my ability to watch live TV slipped away because at $70 a month, I could just sell my soul to Spectrum and buy a cable package […]
The First Few Weeks
The First Few Weeks of School The first few weeks of school are finally over and I am relieved to have found my groove again. I am a really socially awkward person so meeting 150 new people in one day can be a lot for my social battery. I love my students and I am […]