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Running Reflection Series 2: My Experience with Mike Peto’s Brazilian Portuguese Classes ~ Post #1

On By GaryDibiancaIn Beginning of the Year, Classroom Routines, Conferences and Training, Learning Portuguese, Semester Reflection, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized2 Comments

I have waited for this moment for a long time. I have always wanted to learn and/or acquire another language that went beyond a few lessons so I could “get by” while traveling to a new place. This summer has provided me the time and opportunity to start working toward this goal via on-demand Brazilian …

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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.