Welcome to Day 2 of the #MyFives #langchat series! I loved reading all of the #MyFives Teachers I followed posts from yesterday, and I'm excited to have a slew of new people to inspire me in the coming year because of it! Today's post is about BLOG POSTS. What have you read or shared this … Continue reading #MyFives: Blog posts I recommend from 2018
I'm closing out 2018 with FIVE blog posts, each one featuring a collection of FIVE fast and furious reflections on 2018 or glances toward the future. I invite you to join me by sharing your #MyFives each day in your own way: blog them, tweet them, Facebook them, comment them, Insta them...however you share, share! … Continue reading #MyFives: World language teachers I followed in 2018
I'm back to teaching...not in a classroom, and not with adolescents. And not with 35 students. Buuuuuut.... For the first time in five years, I have students that I get to call my very own <3 <3 My friend Adriana over at Vermont Commons posted that one of the parents at their school was looking … Continue reading I’ve got a new Spanish class!
You want to become a more effective, more skillful, more confident language teacher--and you need training. On Demand Professional Development This year, I will be joining with more than 25 other teachers and trainers to bring you an on-demand conference. Comprehensible Online 2019 is a TWO MONTH LONG CONFERENCE. From March 1 to April 30, … Continue reading Online training opportunity for comprehension based teaching
Whether you call them Stations or Centers, you probably love them—and so do your students. Stations give you a laissez-faire teaching day and provide lots of movement and small group interaction for students. Stations do not, however, come without challenges. Stations often take quite a bit of prep work. For the proficiency oriented, comprehension based … Continue reading 20+ stations for proficiency oriented language classes
Whether you are full of energy coming off the fall conference season or starting to feel the winter blues, now is the time to give your language classes a BOOST with materials from The Comprehensible Classroom. We are the #1 store for world language teacher resources on Teachers Pay Teachers, and with over 500 products, … Continue reading Give your class a Boost
ACTFL was, as it always is, inspiring and overwhelming. I didn't make it to all the sessions that I had hoped to, and even still I left with a renewed passion for the important work that we do as language educators and more ideas than I could ever hope to implement. In this post, I … Continue reading Three big ideas from #ACTFL18
The bird's out of the cage, and it’s time to share my big secret with YOU, my readers!! At ACTFL, I announced the launch of GARBANZO, the new web application from The Comprehensible Classroom. The journey to create an app that would help teachers find reading material that is suitable for early language learners began … Continue reading Meet Garbanzo: The new story-based app for learning Spanish
My journey to ACTFL began today with a road trip to drop off my kids with their grandparents—how about you?? Are you already in NOLA or flying in tomorrow? For me, ACTFL is just as much about personal connections as it is about professional learning. It is an opportunity for me to meet mentors that … Continue reading Find me at #ACTFL18
If you're a Spanish teacher, you have likely been thinking about how to share El Día de los muertos with your students since last November...or at least since your first viewing of Coco! TEACH CULTURE AND SPANISH When I began practicing the art of making input comprehensible, I realized that celebrations like this are gold mines … Continue reading Día de Muertos GIVEAWAY
