Reflections on a year of Comprehensible Input December 3, 2019 By Jade Collins Last year was my first time “diving into” the Comprehensible Input (CI) method. I’d previously seen posts and heard feedback from other Spanish teachers about how…
Inside: Resources and Ideas for The Day of the Dead or Día de los Muertos in Spanish Class Each year many people in Mexico and beyond celebrate Día de los Muertos at the end of October and the beginning of November. We…
I’m writing this post to meet a common need that I keep seeing pop up all over my social media. Over the last month, I’ve been seeing a bunch of both experienced and newbies posting for tips on how to…
Note: This post was originally published in December 2016 and has been updated to include more ideas! It can seem hard to keep my Spanish skills up when I spend all day with Spanish 1 students, where I have to…
Ten+ years into my teaching career and I finally feel like my classroom runs like a well-oiled machine. Through A LOT of trial and error, I have created a space that works for me AND my students. Many of the…
Inside: The first week of Spanish Class, tons of ideas for the 1st Week of School in Spanish class. The first week of Spanish class is fast approaching. If you are still in vacation mode, good for you….
I was in the classroom for 7 years and I had to completely clean up and move everything out at the end of every year. I got to be a freaking PRO at classroom clean-up, packing up my (entirely…
In my most popular post on Secondary Spanish Space, I shared with you 10 ideas for increasing engagement and understanding with task cards in the Spanish classroom. I talked about playing basketball, doing a relay race, and other fun…
Survey: Do you think that whomever thought up Teacher Appreciation Week intentionally put it at the point in the year when we’re all hanging on by a thread? I do and it was a pretty genius idea because the timing…
Confession: Some days I don’t feel like teaching. I know, I know. We are supposed to give 100% of ourselves, 100% of the time, but some days that is easier to do than others. I remember wanting to crawl…
