Cosmic Zombie
I assigned a webquest on “La Semana Santa” to two of my Spanish classes last week. The day was 11 April, which, incidentally, was my birthday, for which I took a personal day. Although La Semana Santa had already taken place, the webquest was worthy enough to be completed post-holiday. The students, for the most [...]
It Depends On How One Views the Situation
or…a teachable (anti-racist) moment for teachers. I’ve recently become a fan of a teacher blog, whose target audience is language teachers. I enjoy most of their posts and ideas. But, the one promoting a Mexican Lotería app isn’t one of my favorites. The reason? Some of the game board images are stereotypical, even downright racist. [...]
A Cultural Visitor
My school has a cultural exchange with Venezuela. So, every year in early January, a small group of students and a teacher from our partner school in Caracas visits our school for about a month. The students are usually in grades six and/or seven, and have been learning English from a very young age. They [...]
Things Are Looking Up…
With my Spanish 4 class, that is. It’s been a formidable challenge for me to teach them this year. Albeit a Spanish 4 class, there are about three different levels of students, from low/mid-Spanish 2, to bona fide Spanish 4, in terms of skill level. There are also mixed levels of motivation, drive, intellectual curiosity [...]
Tic-Tac Technology
I like technology. Even more, I like finding viable ways to use technology to promote teaching and learning. One of my favorite online sites for assessing listening and speaking proficiency is Lingt Language. An authoring website for language teachers, I can create a variety of activities using a variety of multimedia. While it’s very easy [...]
A Great Resource
The first time I visited this blog, I admit I thought it was rather strange. Not one who is inclined to infuse pop culture into her curriculum, I wasn’t quite sure how to negotiate the blog in question. However, when a colleague tweeted that she had used an activity from the blog in question with [...]
Where in the World…?
The Daily Post topic for today is: List three countries you’d like to visit, and why you want to go. In keeping with one of the focal points of my blog, which is teaching Spanish, the countries I would like to visit are places where Spanish is spoken. So, here they are: 1. Spain. I [...]
A Lesson That Went Better Than I Expected
I presented an arts-based lesson today on Salvador Dalí. I chose two Dalí paintings – this and this. I also used this resource in order to explain surrealism. There is so much going on in Dalí’s paintings, and so many different perspectives presented, that the students were engaged and interested. I like art. I like [...]
