When the TED talk you're listening to in order to keep up your language skills in your L2 also inspires reflection on professional practice, it's a double win! https://t.co/bV0QdLoukS
Super excited that nearly the entire Spanish 4 class scored I5 (intermediate high) on the Interpretive Reading part of the AAPPL test today!! #TruckerPride#OrgulloCamionero#langchat
My wonderful mom told me about a Netflix series she and my dad have been watching, Siempre bruja, and recommended I preview it to see if it would be good for my students. She said it was easy to follow with her limited Spanish. Looks promising! https://t.co/nzGaGkHLWz
This is the podcast that serendipitously popped up in my queue on my walk home from an in-service on engaging 21st century learners. Lots of great takeaways!
I'm thinking about doing a simulated Sorteo de Navidad in my novice lvl classes (maybe intermediate, too?), giving them décimos for staying in the TL all block. Anyone who's done something like that before have advice on logistics or pitfalls? What to use for prize(s)? #langchat
@SraBabbMSA Maybe listen to someone ordering food and they have to identify what the person ordered, including some special requests (some/not any of X ingredient, to get the indefinite and negative words)? Or figure out which order belongs to which person w/ different dietary restrictions?
For our HS in-service next week we're focusing on building students' "academic vocabulary". In a language class, would you consider the academic vocabulary to be the target language chunks for the current unit, or linguistic terms like pronoun, noun, verb (in L1 or L2)? #langchat
@StratfordFrench At a conference I was at recently, one of the presenters mentioned that the word "assessment" comes from the Latin for "to sit beside".
Any good ideas for more non-internet, solo options for my hw choice board for students without internet at home? I already have read from a book (can check out from classroom library), watch a DVD with audio in Spanish, find Spanish on household items, and sample foods. #langchat
En la escuela donde enseño, los estudiantes de horticultura hacen un proyecto en que utilizan el invernadero para operar un negocio de vivero. Pero a veces las plantas no son lo que dice la etiqueta. Este es el "pepino" que compré. 😁
Today we celebrate Puerto Rican, Hall of Fame baseball star Roberto Clemente, whose record-breaking on-the-field performance matched his groundbreaking off-the-field humanitarian efforts. 🇵🇷⚾️
#HispanicHeritageMonth#Boricua#GoogleDoodle → https://t.co/biMxcb7w08
@MissMcConville I don't know if it would work for your context, but I saw a presentation by a colleague on using the see-think-wonder protocol with students in different levels of Spanish classes to describe photos. https://t.co/Prb37CNExi
I've been really liking using the Classroom-generated Google Calendars for calendar talk this year. I ask ss about upcoming events and add them to the calendar and Google illustrates them with a picture! All in the TL, starting the week with lunes, and 24h clock for times.
@teacherknikki @Doug_Lemov The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has some, including online classes. I did the Spanish-to-English translation concentration in their Master of Arts in Language, Literature, and Translation program. https://t.co/CuvEgol9UD