My final post from this reflection series is about my 2021-22 year in Spanish IV with my intermediate students. The post talks about the Ohio Seal of Biliteracy, using student data, developing thought, my core classroom values, discussion days, honing communication based on novice topics, and finding a happy balance. Thanks for reading. Gary
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MASTERY LEARNING using High-Frequency Verb Quizzes
The 2021-22 school year provided me a chance to try out ideas with MASTERY LEARNING and a policy about retaking assessments until an 80% average was reached. I used this idea consistently throughout the whole year with both my Spanish II and IV classes, and I am very pleased with the results. One of the …
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Reflection 2021-22 Spanish Level II 
I am finally sitting down to write this important reflection of my Spanish level II classes this past year (even if it is in July and not June or any other month throughout the school year).
Aha! Moments from IFLT 2022
Aha! Moments from IFLT 2022 I am so grateful to have returned to an in-person training conference. IFLT 2022 in Saline, Michigan gave us all an opportunity to get refreshed and ready for a fantastic 2022-23 school year. Over the past 6 years, IFLT has implemented a trifecta training model where teachers observe other teachers …
IFLT Coaching Team Song 2022
IFLT Coaching Team Song 2022 After three long years of virtual conferencing, the IFLT 2022 Coaching Training Team came together to “sing” our thoughts. As in many of our former songs, the lyrics serve as reminders to us all as world language teachers as we return to the classroom after the amazing week of ADI/TCI …
Nothing Is as Revolutionary Here as Hamilton, But These Four Things Are Making My Virtual Classes Work (So Far)
As teachers in 2020, we are all learning a new normal - whether it is 100% virtual teaching or a hybrid model, all changing how we interact with students and our subject matter. In my environment, I am teaching Spanish remotely from home with my students “zooming in” three times a week. And even though …
Getting to Know You
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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My Mosaic of World Language Teaching 