Become a more confident language teacher.
This year’s SCOLT Nominee for ACTFL Teacher of the Year is Laura Roché Youngworth. After spending many years as a French teacher and department chair at Beaumont Middle School in Lexington, KY, Laura is now the World Language Specialist for Fayette County Public Schools. Laura is also the co-host of the Language Talk: KWLA podcast series. This is the…
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Happy September, everyone!! Whether you have already gone back or are returning this week, I hope that this is an exciting and encouraging season for you as you put into place all of the things you’ve been planning over the summer. We are just a few months away from the ACTFL Convention in Boston. If…
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Make the 2016-2017 school year the best year ever! Save 28% total on lesson plans and activities from The Comprehensible Classroom on Monday, August 1 and Tuesday, August 2 by combining my store’s 20% off sale with TpT’s Best Year Ever Sale (use coupon code BestYear at checkout). This is the most that you can ever save in…
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You’re not crazy; you read the title correctly. This post has nothing to do with World Languages, but it DOES have to do with teaching! While y’all are home twiddling your thumbs over break (ha, ha), why not stock up on some freezer meals to make your life a little easier once the new semester…
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Warning: you will have to work for this one! If you’ve been following me for a minute, you know that I have a love/hate relationship with #authres (authentic resources). Mostly, I love them…but I hate how they are often used and suggested/enforced to be used in low level classes. Authentic resources are only as valuable as…
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When I walked into Michele Whaley’s Russian classroom in the spring of 2010, I had no idea that I was about to meet a teacher that would forever change my life. Michele has had a profound impact on my personal development as an educator, as she introduced me to TPRS and has continued to mentor me through…
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Tonight’s giveaway is truly for ANYONE! If you’ve spent any amount of time studying language acquisition (first or second), you know that recreational reading helps learners of all ages to develop their reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. Reading–especially recreational reading–is powerful! To that end, I would love to help you learn more about the power of reading and…
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I am REALLY excited about this giveaway because I love games and I love comprehensible input! Tonight’s giveaway is a deck of VERBA cards. VERBA is a card game that, in layman’s terms, is Apples to Apples that provides Comprehensible Input. In their hands, students hold high frequency cognate nouns in their hands. Instead of matching the cards in their…
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I was planning on doing “12 days of Christmas giveaways”, but I figured that this would be a great opportunity for me to give a shout out to one of the many other holidays happening at this time of the year. Just as Christmas steals the spotlight in the US, it does in Spanish speaking…
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Teachers Pay Teachers is throwing their annual Cyber Monday {and Tuesday} sale, and I am participating once again this year! All products in my store will be 20 percent off on Monday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 1, and if you use the official coupon code “SMILE”, you can save a total of 28 percent…
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