Become a more confident language teacher.
Now that all teachers (all?) have at least one week of school under their belts in 2017, you are probably feeling that mixture of excitement and dread as you are still full of thrilling ideas that you hoarded over break yet all-too-aware of the months that loom ahead of you. Here are a few new things from me to…
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French teachers, today is your lucky day! I’ve got some free stuff for you! Last fall, I wrote and shared 15 simple story scripts in Spanish for teachers to get started playing Ben Wang’s simplified version of Hitman. Yesterday, French teacher Lois Dalton emailed me to let me know that she had stayed up until midnight…
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Ugh, Martina, seriously, enough with the blog post titles written in third person!! So annoying! Almost as annoying as WASTING MY LIFE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO TAKE DOWN MY COPYRIGHTED DOCUMENTS FROM PUBLIC WEBSITES!! Thanks to all of my super sleuth friends that have been sending me more….and more…and more…and more…links to my products…
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You probably have a list a mile long of new things that you want to try this semester. Is BreakoutEDU on your list? Whether Santa brought you breakout box supplies or you are still waiting in queue for your official BreakoutEDU box to arrive…or whether you are just hearing about this for the first time…I…
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“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” –L.M. Montgomery 2016 was hard for many people. Many of us experienced great joy this year, but that joy was often overshadowed by suffering, sadness, loss, and hopelessness. The same is true of any year, but for whatever reason it seems…
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Have you ever gone to a session at a conference and been SO EXCITED about whatever you learned that you don’t eat, don’t sleep, don’t shower, and ignore everyone that you care about until you finally get the chance to try it out? No? That’s just a Martina thing? Shoot. Well this last summer, everyone…
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This year’s NECTFL Nominee for ACTFL Teacher of the Year is Katrina Griffin. Katrina is the lead German teacher and World and Classical Languages Department Chair at North County High School in Glen Burnie, Maryland. She has held leadership positions in the Maryland Foreign Language Association (MFLA) and her local chapter of AATG. Her list of involvements in the field…
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Today is the most exciting day of the year for anyone whose teaching or learning has been touched by TPRS®! It is {inter}National TPRS® Day! …not yet an official holiday, but it should be! Today is Blaine Ray’s birthday, and what better day to celebrate the JOY that we have found through his creation, TPRS®! Like any child, TPRS®…
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The handouts from my presentations at COFLT/WAFLT this past weekend in Portland are available in this Google Drive folder. Although the slideshows are abridged, all of the slides with key information are still there. I’d really appreciate feedback on my presentations–what was helpful, what was not helpful, what was confusing, what stood out, etc.–so that I can…
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