One of the most important things we can do when we return to school (either in a virtual setting or an in person one that I assume will still feel very distant as we try to talk through masks) will be to build community and get to know our students. These famous lyrics from …
The Questions & Prompts for the Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection
I am still collecting videos for The Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection. In today’s post I decided to put all of the 41 topics and questions for which I am hoping to collect videos. If you have any ideas how I can best market this project please let me know. Also, please share this with as …
Continue reading The Questions & Prompts for the Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection
The Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection
The Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT: The goal of The Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection is to create an open-source website for teachers with short-video responses by native Spanish-speakers responding to prompts that align closely to the 2017 NCSSFL-ACTFL Intercultural Can-do Statements as they appear in the Expectations for Learning section of …
Continue reading The Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection
Webinar Online Now: Keeping CI Simple for Students
As the end of Quarter 1 is around the corner, I wanted to post this webinar that I did for Teacher’s Discovery last month on Facebook Live. For this webinar I wanted to focus on Simple CI in the classroom. I always have to remind myself how challenging it might be for students to focus …
Continue reading Webinar Online Now: Keeping CI Simple for Students
Free Webinar this Week: Keeping CI Simple for Students
On Thursday, Sept. 12 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time, I will do a free webinar on the Teacher’s Discovery and Voces Digital Facebook Pages: https://www.facebook.com/VocesDigital/ . If you are interested in the topic, please consider checking it out. If you cannot make it, it says that it will be archived on the Teacher’s Discovery Youtube …
Continue reading Free Webinar this Week: Keeping CI Simple for Students
Let the Coaching Team Remind You: WE ARE A CI FAMILY
Let this be a little source of inspiration as we all head back to the classroom. This is the NTPRS 2019 Coaching Team reminding us that WE ARE A CI FAMILY. All of the Coaching Team Members from NTPRS, IFLT, AGEN, and any other conferences or PLCs using our Coaching pod model want you to …
Continue reading Let the Coaching Team Remind You: WE ARE A CI FAMILY
Including LGBTQ Voices in Spanish Classes through Two New Amazing Readers (Lots of Good Information for All Teachers Too :)
In this post I will highlight two authors who have each written Spanish comprehension-based readers that present the lives of LGBTQ adolescents. Not only do Jennifer Degenhardt’s Secretos and Adriana Ramirez’s Julio provide great sources of comprehensible input for students, but they also present protagonists who are living their whole selves with regard to their …
If I Teach with CI/TPRS/Acquisition-Driven Instruction, Will My Students Be Ready to Take the AP® World Language and Culture Exam?
I wanted to share this new post I wrote as a guest writer on the Teacher’s Discovery World Language Blog. I had the chance to reflect on a question that I am often asked about Teaching with Comprehensible Input and the AP World Language and Culture exam or class. So check out my thoughts about …
Sharing Something Short and Sweet: Organizing my Props
Well this will be a first for me: my shortest blog post. I just wanted to share that I found these awesome jumbo-stacking baskets at my local Home Depot to organize my props and costumes. I am always thrilled to find a new stuffed animal, costume, or prop and add it to my collection, but …
Continue reading Sharing Something Short and Sweet: Organizing my Props
Three Changes “For Good:” Desk-less, Bathroom Pass Procedure, and Assessing with Extension Structures
As in any school year, I have tried many new ideas, techniques, and changes in my classroom environment. In fact, I am currently attending the wonderful Central States Conference to continue to learn more. In this post, I want to highlight 3 changes that I have done For Good! I am not saying that I …
