Are you looking for a way to spice up your classroom communicative activities? Do students need more inspiration during creative writing tasks? Let me show you how story prompt cards can spice up your communicative tasks. With just one set of story prompt cards, you can have endless options for
We all have them… fast finishers. Those students that work through a task or exam so quickly that they have to sit and twiddle their thumbs for 20 minutes. My fear was that during an observation, administration would see a few students who completed their work and were “bored.” So,
Every year at this time, my colleagues and I would get an email from the secretary requesting our teacher budget for next year. We had to create a list of classroom supplies and resources we would like to have for the following school year. I always wanted to make the
I first taught about Argentina’s Dirty War in a Spanish 3 Honors course. This week of content was the most memorable lesson for my students. I remember when I said this happened in the 1970s, they were all shocked… jaws dropped that this atrocity was so recent in our world’s
If you’re reading this blog post, you are most likely a new teacher or haven’t taught demo lessons in a long time. Be sure to read this whole blog post. You’ll learn about my most successful demo lesson and why the other four demo lessons were far from perfect! So,
I remember teaching prepositions in Spanish when I first taught Spanish 2. It accompanied a unit for places around town and giving directions. I felt like we spent the entire unit just staring at maps and describing the location of each place, then giving directions from A to B. I
Womens History Month takes place during the month of March and we can use this time to celebrate and teach our students about the impacts Hispanic women have had on our world. There are countless women in the Hispanic world that have made incredible impacts on society. From motivational speakers
Spanish teachers love to travel. We love sharing our photos from around the world with our students. And we would absolutely love to have our students experience our favorite countries and destinations in person. But that is usually impossible to do, so we have to get creative. With no budget,
Does creating sub plans cause more stress and anxiety than if you had just gone to school instead of enjoying that personal day with your family? Or is your administration requesting a week’s worth of emergency sub plans, because hey you never know when you’ll need to use them? Maybe
I first discovered the power of Pinterest to find authentic texts in the target language in 2016. It was my first year of teaching Spanish. I was a middle school teacher, and my mentor signed us up to attend a FLENJ (Foreign Language Teachers of NJ) conference. At first, I
I am a high school Spanish teacher from Pennsylvania. I create authentic and engaging resources for the Spanish classroom. On my blog, I share practical tips and strategies for teaching world languages.