After noticing the connections between CI and Suzuki, I walked in to every one of my daughter’s lessons with a notebook and pencil, ready to jot down her teacher’s methods and brainstorm ways to adapt them to my own French classes.
Multiple students have reached out to me over the years, sharing their struggles with depression. I knew I had to do something different in order to address the needs of my students. I needed to find ideas.
See how easy it is to make festive flowers for your Spanish class this Día de Muertos.
It is effective to teach languages where your students are already. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar, right?
Whether I’m ready or not, any minute now there will be teenagers walking through my classroom door; teens who don’t care that I still want to be sipping lemonade on my back porch. They’ve got their own concerns…
“Wait, you’re saying that you can get money translating into English from [insert your language] about that?”
Music instigated great dialogues about cultural differences!
This has to be addressed immediately and unequivocally, but winning hearts and minds can be trickier than just shutting down the rude comments. I have developed the perfect tactic to address this situation.
Seeing kids get stuck in the doldrums continues to be a motivating factor for my involvement and love of education. I truly want to help students get their ship moving.
Reading is one of the best ways to learn a language, and Spanish books for beginners are an important part of any home or classroom library.
Graphic organizer helps students create short and effective summaries for a work of fiction.
Taking high school students on field trips out of the country is a daunting feat nowadays, but with the use of the internet in our classrooms, we can easily travel virtually to many distant countries.