Category: Culture

New Year’s Post 2026 (It’s Going to Be a Happy New Year)  

On By GaryDibiancaIn Beginning of the Year, Culture, Curriculum, Semester Reflection, UncategorizedLeave a comment

As I always say, you certainly will not get inundated with posts from my Blog during the school year because for me it is crazy busy. I live deadline to deadline, and although I'm not always proud of that I certainly do get all of my work done.  This all being said, I made this …

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Resource: Who is ready for a Tea Party about the film “También la lluvia/Even the Rain” with your upper-level Spanish students?  

On By GaryDibiancaIn AP World Language, Culture, Curriculum, Semester Reflection, Spanish III, Spanish IV, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized1 Comment

I rarely share resources but I am sharing this resource because the whole class period was a wonderful introduction to the film. I feel that this year my students had a much better understanding of the film and the characters because of this powerful preview activity. I also loved it because in no way was the “preview activity” a passive one; my students were 100% engaged and actively interacting, speaking Spanish, and oh yeah, having tea and cookies.  

Sharing some Quick Culture Activities

On By GaryDibiancaIn Culture, Curriculum, Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection, Spanish II, Spanish III, Spanish IV, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized1 Comment

So this year, seeing how my Spanish II students really needed to more regularly stand up and move around my rather small classroom, I designed 8 cultural object hunts that could be easily replicated by any teacher just using image searches or some cultural realia that could be sitting on a shelf, in a basement, or even organized in culture bags like mine and again, still not being used. 

New Resource: Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection

On By GaryDibiancaIn Culture, Diversity in Education, Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection, Spanish II, Spanish III, Spanish IV2 Comments

The Hispanic Cultural Competency Collection is a new resource of short videos from native Spanish-speakers who responded to prompts about 41 different cultural themes that included aspects about perspective, practices, and products. The prompts and short comprehension questions are provided in English to help focus students. Please encourage others to record more videos via https://flipgrid.com/hispanicculturalcc to provide our students with more perspectives from the Spanish-Speaking world.