Today marks one of the first days this summer where I haven’t had family in town or been traveling–ahhh, summertime! One of my goals for this summer is to devour another tv series in Spanish in order to give my listening skills a boost and just to enjoy the story. Having lived with an exchange […]
I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Kara Jacobs on several projects in the last few years, including viewing guides for El Internado. An updated version of episode 2’s guide is available here: El Internado 1×02 Enjoy!
edited on 1 Feb., 2015 to include episode 6 Kara Jacobs (find her here) and I found each other through our PLN on Twitter, and I am a better teacher for it! Recently we have been collaborating on some viewing guides for our classes to accompany episodes of El Internado, and we would like to […]
Have you seen El Internado? Thanks to Kristy Placido, I started watching this show with my intermediate class this semester, and was absolutely blown away by their response. They would do ANYTHING to watch the show–including homework! I started having to give them a schedule of our weekly lesson plans just so they weren’t continually […]
One of my goals for this year is to build a sustainable, consistent, framework on which to build my lesson planning. I had developed a pretty good groove for several years where there was a rhythm to the week–Mondays we almost always did extensive input work, Fridays were Internado or digital work depending on the […]
In my previous post, I shared some book reconnaissance from our recent trip to Spain. Today I want to share four books that I bought and plan to use in my classes this year. “Cuadernos de vacaciones” were all over stores throughout our trip, so this one caught my eye: Esto NO es un cuaderno […]
While I adore and continue to use El Internado in my intermediate Spanish classes, this year I wanted to try something different with my Heritage Spanish course. I’m trying out El Ministerio del Tiempo, currently in season 3 in Spain. I LOVE this show, I and have learned quite a bit from it myself. The […]
Today is our last day of classes, and we are wrapping up with one of the most-requested activities of the year: Breakout Boxes. I’ve found them to be a mind-boggling challenge for students that re-energized a love for learning… and taught content and soft skills along the way. This semester we did Breakout activities three […]
I recently had an idea that Shutterfly made easy to try out: what if I used jigsaw puzzles to introduce art works? I used a picture of Guernica, had a free code, and gave it a spin. It came out great (even though Shutterfly sent me a warning that the image quality low)! Encouraged by […]
I bid a fond farewell to the purple room, the best classroom I’ve ever had in the best school I’ve ever taught. I’ll miss them both! Though school ended about 3 weeks ago, today is actually my first “vacation” day. We had a family vacation trip, said goodbye to our Ukrainican exchange student, hosted […]
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