Tag: classroom
Facilitating Sustainable Virtual PD
Whether teachers are instructing entirely online, face-to-face, or in a hybrid capacity, the one constant this school year will be instructional technology.
Even in a...
Without Active Listening, Students Fall on Deaf Ears
Rumi in the Language Classroom Series Vol 2
See Vol 1 of the series here.
See Vol 3 of the series here.
One of the Rumi’s poems...
Best Practices for the Virtual Classroom
Online language courses are growing in popularity because they are easy to incorporate into busy schedules, and this is especially true of business English...
The Art of Teaching
“Our students aren’t creative,” claimed one of the language teachers in the professional development workshop. The other participating teachers nodded in agreement.
“How do you...
Making Learning Come to Life
“Ultimately, the outcome of maker education and educational makerspaces leads to determination, independence, and creative problem solving, and an authentic preparation for...
Finding Inspiration in Diversity
Chris Cartwright offers examples showing how improved intercultural competence can motivate language learning
“You really cannot teach a language; it has to be learned. Fostering...
Focus on Student-Centered Learning
In Future-Focused Learning: Ten Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice, published by Solution Tree, author Lee Watanabe-Crockett details how educators can shift instruction to focus...
Cultivating a Personal Style
Juliet Falce-Robinson insists on individual style in a skills-based approach to language teaching
The goal of a successful language program is to foment and foster...
A Pedagogy of Translanguaging
One day at recess, a distraught five-year-old approached me...
Spanish Resources
Some free online resources for Spanish teachers
Teachers’ blogs:
Miscositas www.miscositas.com Lori Langer de Ramirez offers a plethora of resources for Spanish teachers: Thematic curriculum units with...
