Mike Coxon filmed and posted a 7 minute segment of my Spanish 2 Learning Lab at iFLT 2015 and posted it for your viewing pleasure. It starts out a little slow (I think this was right at the start of Day
Training Your Quiz Writer
Melissa commented on the Setting Up Student Jobs post about the job of Quiz Writer. This is the person who helps you by writing a true/false quiz during PQA or a story so that you can be ready in the
Setting Up Circling With Balls
In addition to Bryce Hedstrom’s Persona Especial, I use Ben Slavic’s Circling With Balls (CWB) activity to personalize the classroom. Today, on day 6 , I began this activity by asking students to draw some of their favorite things on
Teach Them to Long for the Sea
If you want to build a ship, don’t gather people together to collect wood and son’t asign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry This quote
Setting up Student Jobs
On the third day of classes I began setting up student jobs. I started with these six jobs: the Bouncer, the seating chart person, the personal assistant, the secretary, the note taker, and Donald Trump. Bouncer/el portero: this person is responsible
This is What Really Matters.
There has been a torrent of activity on many TPRS and TCI forums of late. It seems this year a levee has broken and a flood of professional language educators has courageously taken a dip. I previously echoed Bob Patrick’s