Are you brave enough to try a cooking day with your Spanish students, but wondering where to start? Here are a few tips & hints I’ve learned along the way! Cooking with students is a fun way to bring culture…
The egg hunt is over, the candy has been eaten, and you are left with dozens of plastic eggs. Now what?? Use those plastic eggs in Spanish class, of course! (P.s. if you don’t have any, stop reading this and…
What makes for good language learning? What are the strategies and techniques that will aid our students in their language journey? Language teachers sometimes need to refresh our perspectives and remember what it was like to actually learn the…
Do you use interactive notebooks in you Spanish classes? If you’re not familiar with interactive notebooks, I suggest you check out this post for info on the basics. If you’d like some tips to get started, you can check out…
If you’re like me, you rely on the internet to stay updated on teaching language. Among hot topics you’ll encounter, grammar might just be the hottest. Mention you don’t teach explicit grammar in some groups, and they’ll react as if…
March 14, 2017 By Catharyn Crane In last week’s post, Jen talked about the power of social media for finding authentic resources. This week, we continue the social media discussion by talking about how to get online collaborations with other Spanish teachers started….
Hi! I’m Jen from the blog Spanish with Sra. Shaw. By far the most popular of my blog posts has been a 6-part series about how IPAs (Integrated Performance Assessments) transformed my classroom. As more districts move toward proficiency-based curricula,…
I used to have a very grammar-based curriculum I had to teach. I had to teach students when to use ‘personal a’ in stand-alone sentences with no context. They had to learn the rules for how to know which nouns…
I am addicted to Target. There. I said it. Man, that feels good to get off my chest! There is something about strolling up and down the aisles, pushing a red cart and sipping a Starbucks mocha, that I find…
Ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day in your Spanish classes without losing learning time. Thinking of celebrating el Día de los Enamorados / El Día de San Valentín in your Spanish classes but concerned you’ll be losing precious time away from…
