French, Spanish, and Italian Food Unit Lesson Planning
Need some ideas for how to plan your French, Spanish, or Italian Food Unit? In this post, I walk you through how to plan for this unit. I include all of the instructional, practice, and assessment materials that you’ll need, and I give tips and strategies for how to pace your unit, what activities to implement and how, and ideas for assessing student learning.
Managing and Combatting End of Year Teacher Burnout
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it’s also the last or second-to-last month of the school year for most of us. How are you feeling? Are you a bit more stressed than usual? Ready for summer break? Exhausted? Completely burnt out? In this post, I’m going to share some ways to help you better manage the burnout you might be feeling as we enter the final weeks of the school year.
French, Spanish, and Italian Family Unit Lesson Planning
Need some ideas for how to plan your French, Spanish, or Italian Family Unit? In this post, I walk you through how to plan for this unit. I include all of the instructional, practice, and assessment materials that you’ll need, and I give tips and strategies for how to pace your unit, what activities to implement and how, and ideas for assessing student learning.
7 Simple Tips for Staying Comprehensible in the World Language Classroom
We all know that we need to use comprehensible input in our French, Spanish, Italian, and other World Language classes… but in my experience, how to implement effective comprehensible input strategies is rarely discussed. In this blog post, I am sharing SEVEN tips for how you can stay comprehensible so that you ensure your students are understanding the messages you are delivering to them.
French, Spanish, and Italian School Unit Lesson Planning
Need some ideas for how to plan your French, Spanish, or Italian School Unit? In this post, I walk you through how to plan for this unit. I include all of the instructional, practice, and assessment materials that you’ll need, and I give tips and strategies for how to pace your unit, what activities to implement and how, and ideas for assessing student learning.
Unlocking Language Proficiency: The Role of Comprehensible Input in the World Language Classroom
Comprehensible Input is a term that all World Language Teachers should be familiar with. In my own teaching practice, I would consider comprehensible input to be a part of my “core beliefs” that guide my philosophy of World Language teaching and that inform the decisions I make regarding planning, instruction, and assessment. In this blog post, I’m going to talk about what comprehensible input is and how to begin using it effectively in your World Language classroom so that you can begin unlocking your students’ innate ability to acquire language and gain proficiency.
French, Spanish, and Italian Sports & Hobbies Unit Lesson Planning
Need some ideas for how to plan your French, Spanish, or Italian Sports & Hobbies Unit? In this post, I walk you through how to plan for this unit. I include all of the instructional, practice, and assessment materials that you’ll need, and I give tips and strategies for how to pace your unit, what activities to implement and how, and ideas for assessing student learning.
World Language Teaching Tools, Gadgets, and Gizmos!
Being a World Language teacher is a tough job! Fortunately, there are tools, gadgets, and gizmos that help make our lives as French, Spanish, and Italian teachers a bit easier. In this post, I share 7 teaching items that have helped reduce some of the nuisances and micro-stressors of my day-to-day teaching experience. Compounded over time, these gadgets have actually made a HUGE impact to my teaching satisfaction and overall quality of life.
French, Spanish, and Italian Weather, Days of the Week, Seasons, Months Unit Lesson Planning
Need some ideas for how to plan your French, Spanish, or Italian Weather, Days of the Week, Seasons, and Months Unit? In this post, I walk you through how to plan for this unit. I include all of the instructional, practice, and assessment materials that you’ll need, and I give tips and strategies for how to pace your unit, what activities to implement and how, and ideas for assessing student learning.
Simplifying World Language Sub Plans: A Guide to Streamlining for Emergencies and Illnesses
You or a family member are feeling under the weather, and you’re stressing because you have no idea what to leave your French, Spanish, Italian, or German students to keep them productive and engaged during class. Sound familiar? In this post, you’ll learn how to simplify and streamline your process for leaving sub plans and activities for your classes.