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
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 …
Short and sweet is the goal of this post. If you have followed me in the past, you know that brevity is not my strongest suit but today let’s hope. I wanted to share an easy and effective way to test listening comprehension using a simple Quizlet derived “Test.” This means there is very little …
I cannot believe that the semester is already complete, and of course my blog has not had much attention. I certainly know how I operate, and I need the personal challenge of setting goals with deadlines because without them too many other goals and priorities must happen first. This year I did not set the …
Continue reading Some Holiday Food for Thought about Final Assessments
Happy 2018-19 school year! I wanted to take the time and share a strategy, or better yet, a framework for learning and assessment that I use as one of the tenants in my Spanish IV classes and at the end of Spanish III. This framework is preparing students for a Socratic Circle or Socratic Seminar, …
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Returning to the well for a yearly conference is rejuvenating and special. This week I am in the middle of two weeks of attending two amazing weeklong conferences – NTPRS and IFLT. I am sure both will provide tremendous amounts of growth opportunities for me as an educator and as a trainer and coach (which …
Continue reading How “Coaching” Can Complement the Classroom
Wow, two months have flown by and teaching three preps, certainly keeps me on my toes. There are few moments of my life that I am not thinking about my classes and what I could possibly do to help students or better engage them in class. For me, this has been even more important during …
One day more! It has been a great ride reflecting over this last week of my winter break, and with this fifth post, I have reached my New Year’s goal. For the remainder of the semester I will stick to my once a month goal that I set in September (but perhaps I can manage …
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New Year's Reflection #4: the human side of teaching with a little help from a few musicals
Moving my Intermediate students along, here is my New Year's Reflection for Spanish IV.
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