Picture this: your most energetic class is quiet, engaged, and acquiring language at a level you didn’t think was possible. And with a little front end set up, you have zero prep for it the rest of the year. Yeah right, you think. Not MY freshmen. And how much work and planning does this takeContinue reading “Unlock Peace and Joy with Reading”
Category Archives: beginning of the year
Day one: success!
I feel like I had a very successful first day of school today and would like to give you a glimpse of my Spanish 2 and IB classes on day 1. Spanish 2 IB Spanish I’m not going to go into as much detail, but I had a very successful day in IB Spanish asContinue reading “Day one: success!”
Start the Year Right: Tools to Help Explain Your Acquisition-Driven Approach
Whether you’ve dipped your toes in or jumped all the way into teaching with a focus on comprehensible input, you’ve surely realized that it is a decisive paradigm shift for students. They are not learning about the language you’re teaching, rather they’re learning about other things using the language. Focusing on the messages themselves asContinue reading “Start the Year Right: Tools to Help Explain Your Acquisition-Driven Approach”
¿Cómo te llamas?
I hate/love this time of year – the dwindling summer days that fly so quickly by, but it’s always exciting getting ready to meet a new group of students! Gearing up for introductions, I decided to find a song to reinforce the expressions “cómo te llamas,” and “mucho gusto”. I was bummed trying to findContinue reading “¿Cómo te llamas?”
Storytime con Sra. Jensen 