I am happy to report that the coffee commercial that I wrote about last week has been a great source of Input for my students as we continue to follow this year’s Winter Olympics. I wanted to say that I have updated the resources. I published last week’s post/resources quickly because I wanted us all …
Continue reading Updates for Video Clip Chat: the Coffee Run and A New Class Extension Writing Game
Sometimes I really hate being inspired. It means that I have to work more and fit something else into an already packed week of lessons. On Friday night while watching the Olympics, I quickly realized that my Spanish 2 structures from last week could all apply to the Olympic Games (and I didn’t even do …
Continue reading How to Quickly Create a Clip Chat and a New Resource: The Coffee Run
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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I must thank Mike Peto for the amazing experience this summer learning another language. As I posted in my first post about this class, I have been waiting for an opportunity like this for quite some time. This was a perfect summer experience for me and I am going back to the classroom re-energized and recharged for a great school year. Thanks again Mike for being such a wonderful teacher and inspiration. Now for One Post More!
Here are 5 more of my “AHA” Moments and Teaching Tips in this post about my experience acquiring/learning Portuguese this summer.
During this reflection series, I am noting an “AHA” moment from each day of Mike Peto’s 2024 Brazilian Portuguese Classes, which are available on his CI Master Class Site. “AHA” Moment ~ Day 6: The Weekend Review in the Past Tense Today’s class started in a terrific way reviewing what was discussed from Friday’s “What …
I've decided to give this topic its own post. It takes me back to my first day of learning Brazilian Portuguese with Mike Peto this summer and I have not stopped thinking about his clickable Song Activities for the past 25 days. In fact, we are still using these activities daily in our classes, and I still love them. I feel like this post should also say: Feeling accomplished!
“AHA” Moment #3 from Mike Peto’s Guidebook: Write and Discuss Every Day I am going back to how I started 10 years ago in my school. I always wanted students to have a notebook and pencil, and somewhere along the way this became a problem for students. So again, I will require all students to …
I have now been teaching for 23 years, and it is still amazing how I feel every year I continue to learn more as I hone my craft. This past school year was no different as there were some new “old” challenges thrown at me that have happened about every 3 years when I teach …
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