If you’re like me, you’re counting the days to the end of the school year. But, before we close the door of our classroom, there is ONE activity that no World Language teacher should skip. This end-of-the-year activity may not sound fun, but, believe me, it’s the activity that has helped
…Before the Big End-Of-The-Year Exams In Your World Language Classes By Claudia Elliott and Christina Margiorie How can we help our students be successful on all those big end-of-the-year exams? No matter what activities or strategies we use, there is one thing for sure: we need to build competency and
The multiple-choice section of the AP® Spanish Language and Culture Exam was my least favorite part of the test until this year. In the past, I felt this section was too discouraging for students, and I didn’t think there were any specific strategies that could really make a difference. Don’t
Engaging our language learners seems to be so darn hard this year. Keeping our students engaged is always at the top of our list, but it´s not an easy job. For many years, I thought that the answer was to discover a good game, activity, or resource to engage language
Have you heard about comprehensible input? If the answer is no, you’re not alone. I hadn’t for the first 5 years as a teacher. Then one day, I learned how comprehensible input is the key ingredient for language acquisition and the transformation began. I know this transformation is not easy,
The end of the semester or the school year is exciting but also hard. We want to keep helping our students to acquire the language but we’re exhausted. These five low prep end-of-the-school-year/semester activities can help you finish strong without burning out. Why do I love these 5 end-of-the-school-year?semester activities
By Bertha Delgadillo and Claudia Elliott In our last post, we shared two of our most actionable strategies to tackle the free-response questions of the AP Language and Culture exam. Click here to read more about how to use model text and chunking to help your AP students be successful
By Bertha Delgadillo and Claudia Elliott Ready or not here we go. Our students will be taking the full AP Language and Culture Exam next month. We only have a few weeks left, but these weeks are very important. We need to be intentional so our students have the best
As World Language teachers, one of the biggest struggles we face is how to create lessons that are full of compelling and comprehensible input. Our textbooks are SO dry and unrelatable. We spend hours in front of the computer looking for ideas and resources that help us provide comprehensible and
Staying comprehensible is essential in our classes but now we have so many barriers. In this blog, I´ll share my top 3 strategies to help you stay comprehensible even behind screens.
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