Teaching Spanish w/ Comprehensible Input

More than a month remains until my classroom will be filled with students, but I am already creating plans for those first few days (not on ...

For those attending the iFLT 2017 conference that were at my presentation, Movie Talk, Beyond the Basics, I have attached the link below to ...

It's July and you know what that means: it's time for meaningful professional development at iFLT! I'm writing this from Denver,...

One of my least favorite tasks as a teacher is to write substitute plans. I can take the easy way out and have the students watch a movie. M...

I have known about passwords for some time thanks to Alina Filipescu for blogging about using passwords with her students (read her blog ...

Revisiting a blog post from January 2013 PLNs are the BEST! Today Elisabeth Hayles contacted me and shared the documents that she made ...

I can personally testify to the power of reading when acquiring a second language. Because of that personal experience, I make every effort ...

Hypothesis: Connecting cooking to subject matter will increase student interest in a larger percentage of students than teaching the subjec...

Have you ever thought of how often you hear commands throughout your day or how often you say a command ? It has to be one of the most use...

Brain breaks are a good idea because they're a necessity. Your students need that little bit of down time with a physical activity that ...

This is the 3rd of 3 posts with explanations of the activities than can be used when reading Mira Canion's novel, El Escape Cubano . You...