Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input

This week I am attending my first National TPRS Conference (NTPRS12) and one of the many benefits to attending is meeting other teachers in ...

This post has little to do with actual teaching strategies and everything to do with organization.  Because of the website only2clicks , I h...

For the last two weeks, I've been reading (or rereading) several instructional books on TPRS, but since it is summer, I can read them at...

Several months ago I followed a link and found several videos of Ben Slavic teaching his high school students French.  I watched them even t...

If you are a teacher of students that fit category #1 or #3 below and are interested in a global project with my Spanish students, please ...

I just learned that the Draw Something App for iPhone and iPad is now available in Spanish and 12 other languages.  How cool is that! O...

I'm conducting a very informal reading experiment this summer with my daughter.  She finished Spanish 1 in June and she will have Spanis...

A task that I'm working on this month is to re-write the curriculum for Spanish 1 and 2.  Our current curriculum is written in LFS (Lear...

"Picking up word meaning by reading is 10 times faster than intensive vocabulary instruction."  - Stephen Krashen, The Power o...

Since I've used videos throughout the semester for discussions in the TL, I wanted to carry that format through in the final exam.   My...

Last week for something different, I started the class using an  app for the iPad called " Akinator ".  It is similar to "2...

Earlier this month, I decided to change the seating arrangement in my classroom.  I used to have the desks in a U formation to allow the s...