Become a more confident language teacher.
Foldables are nothing new to most K-12 educators. It seems that a foldable craze hits districts or buildings every few years. Made popular by Dinah Zike, I currently blame Pinterest for the resurgence of the things. Our school has had several trainings on them recently. Thankfully, they have all been department-specific and I have yet…
Read MoreIf you use Google Docs to create and administer multiple-choice quizzes or tests for your students, this How-To document will be useful for you! I wrote it up several years ago for other teachers in my district to use, and I dug it out of the woodworks last night so that I could remember how…
Read MoreI have received several questions lately about how to use my story scripts, so I figured it was about time that I wrote a post about it! When I introduce the target structures for each formal script, I follow a fairly rigid structure. First, I write the structure on the board in Spanish with a…
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Kristin Dahl recently modeled for us a One Word Image at our First Fridays PLC. Kristin learned it from Ben Slavic, who has blogged about it quite a bit. A One Word Image is a version of TPRS, and the teacher uses all of the same techniques. However, it is more about the character than…
Read MoreThis is a document that I created a year or two ago that explains how to create and manipulate tables and images in Pages. If you’re a Word user but have Pages capability, Christmas Break is a great time to spend a few hours getting comfortable with Pages! Making the switch from Word to Pages…
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Since I blog about TPRS so much, I should probably stop and explain what it is. Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling, or TPRS, is a teaching method developed by Blaine Ray. It’s a method that focuses on providing students with lots of comprehensible input through the co-construction of stories, and Blaine developed it out…
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