Do you finally have your own classroom to decorate? Congratulations! You must be so excited! As a teacher who taught on a cart for the first 3 years of her career, I know how fun it can be to finally have a space of your own! Setting up your classroom Classroom Layout Set up your student desks and furniture first. Every classroom layout is going to depend on the space you ... Read More about Decorating Your First Spanish Classroom
How to Organize a Rotating Schedule in Outlook
Do you teach on a rotating block schedule and find it hard to stay organized? Maybe you are like me and have a 6 day rotation of classes. You always have a team meeting on C days, but C day is never the same day each week! You really want to put all of your meetings into your calendar but Outlook and Google Calendars only allow you to make repeating appointments based on a 5 day work week! "Every ... Read More about How to Organize a Rotating Schedule in Outlook
5 icebreaker activities for the first week of Spanish
Are you looking for ways to connect with your students and build community during the first week of class? Do you want to get to know your students, but also set the expectation of "Spanish only" from the start? Here are 5 games that accomplish both of those objectives! 1. ¡Corre, corre! Students form a circle with one person in the middle. The middle person makes a true statement about ... Read More about 5 icebreaker activities for the first week of Spanish
Helping students to write more in Spanish
Middle school Spanish students are still learning the habits of writing in English, so it's really important that we provide them with tools to write in Spanish. This can include providing sentence starters, word walls, or graphic organizers. In my classroom, students write about their weekend as part of Calendar Talk. For the first month, it's ok for them to write in basic sentences: I ... Read More about Helping students to write more in Spanish
Where to start when you have no Spanish curriculum
Are you about to start a new job but don't have any curriculum? How do you know what to teach to your first year Spanish students? Over the years I have learned that Spanish departments fall into one of two camps: mandated textbook or no Spanish curriculum at all. Although I technically had a book to use, I supplemented almost everything. By the time I was done, my students never even knew ... Read More about Where to start when you have no Spanish curriculum
Unit Plan: Trains in Spanish
Navigating through a train station in a Spanish speaking country could be a real life task that students may experience. It was also a unit I needed to teach as part of our Spanish curriculum! Here are some activities I developed about trains in Spanish that I hope you find useful as well! Introducing train vocabulary in Spanish To introduce the train vocabulary to students, I told ... Read More about Unit Plan: Trains in Spanish
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