Become a more confident language teacher.
Coming back from break can be the worst. Whether you’ve had a super restful or a super chaotic and stressful time, picking up your school responsibilities and getting back on your school schedule is work. As I’m planning my own back-from-break lesson plans for our homeschool group, I want to share with you three back-from-break…
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Freezer Meals have been part of my Daily Life Survival Plan for many years. Being able to open the freezer, pull out a bag, dump it in a slow cooker, and not think about dinner again until 5:00 keeps me from wasting time making last-minute runs to the grocery store, refereeing fights from hangry children…
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It’s May. If you’re lucky, you are wrapping up your last week or two of school. If you’re on the East Coast, you are staring down another month and a half of classes. Either way–the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you.are.done. Here are ten activities that you can use to carry through…
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“I’m just going to cry for a few minutes.” I was laying in bed last night after saying one of the hardest goodbyes of this transition and feeling pretty sad. So I forewarned my husband that the tears were going to start flowing…and they did. And through my tears, I said, “It’s not that I…
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I went to Walmart the other day to buy toilet paper and popsicles. It was the first time that I had been in our local Walmart in…a very long time. I grabbed the goods and joined the shortest checkout line. Two customers in front of me, my former principal was checking out. I hadn’t seen…
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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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Class novels make the BEST long-term sub plans. I have to give a HUGE shout out to Carol Gaab for the amazing teacher’s manual that she wrote to accompany her equally amazing novel, El nuevo Houdini. My 2A students will be reading the past-tense version of the novel (the novel includes two versions: one present…
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