Just checked out my class rosters, and in addition to my three classes of returning students (105 returners–we are at capacity!), I have 72 new faces that will walk through my door next Wednesday. The big question is… how fast can I learn their names? Learning student names is serious business. There are few things…
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Card Talk
Card Talk is one of the most simple lessons known to language-teacher-kind. It is zero prep, student centered, and is easy to extend into other activities and content. Also…it’s FUN! I first saw Card Talk done by Carol Gaab at AFLA 2011. Even though I had read extensively about Ben Slavic’s version of Card Talk (“Circling…
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QAR
Note: I first heard about QAR in a workshop with Carol Gaab during our 2011 AFLA Conference. I began to dig into it and published this post soon thereafter. Imagine my surprise when my principal brought in consultant Susan Van Zant just two weeks after I published it, announcing to the staff that this would…
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