The Immigrant Archive Project is a really neat website that I found through the Esperanza Teacher’s Guide. It contains pages upon pages of videos of immigrants to the United States telling their stories. The possibilities for classroom use of this site are endless! The activity that is published in Chapter 9 of the Esperanza’s Teacher’s…
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Storytelling as Instruction
This.Prezi.Is.Awesome. Thanks to @vmorgana for Tweeting it out this morning! It explains various storytelling techniques, but also provides a compelling argument for how and why storytelling is an effective method of instruction in any content area. Awesome! …and four hours later, this great article Tweeted by @SenorG, ACTFL Teacher of the Year, about the power of…
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High School Dropouts and Middle School
This is a fantastic video from Frontline about how a student’s middle school experience–even in sixth grade–can predict whether or not that child will drop out of high school: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/education/dropout-nation/middle-school-moment/ The video states that if a sixth-grade student in a high-poverty school is present less than 80 percent of the time, fails math or English,…
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Pictograms from Cynthia
Textivate
Original post: October 2012 I know that I am way behind the eight ball on this one, and I have a tendency to exaggerate things, but… This is the best 2.0 tool for comprehensible input classrooms. I only say that because I can’t think of one that I like better. This is EASY for teachers…
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Visuals Database
Here is the link to a visuals database for world language classrooms, created by the University of Pittsburg. It has zillions of uses, one of which could be selecting one image to use as a class prompt for a universal screener or other writing or speaking assessment. You could print out one and leave it…
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Grow Story Grow
This is one of my favorite language-learning resources. My students love it, and it is a great activity to leave as a sub plan or for a day that you plan to pull students for things like speaking assessments or portfolio reviews. Basically, students can log in and read dual-language electronic storybooks and complete follow-up…
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URL Swap
Hi all, Since I use this blog way more than my old google site, I’ve transferred the domain http://www.martinabex.com to this blog. If you want to access my old google site (I’ll eventually transfer all of its files over here), you need to use its google URL: https://sites.google.com/a/martinabex.com/www/for-teachers
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Achieve3000
Our school has a site license for Achieve3000, an absolutely incredible online resource designed to improve students’ literacy skills. As a Title I school, it is an important component of our language arts program, but all teachers were trained on how to use it with the hope that it would be incorporated into all curriculums…
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Great Resources
Cynthia Hintz posted a link on her blog to one of Mr. Tejeda’s Podcuentos. These videos are awesome! He has some in Spanish and some in French. He speaks verrrrry slowly and circles each new piece of information very thoroughly. Cynthia used the story about the Chico Peruano to reinforce first-person singular verb forms…
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