vocabulary activities Salad Bowl: A mixer game turned into vocabulary review. 29 Mar 201819 Mar 2020 As I learn and experience teaching with comprehensible input, there seem to be times during the year when we just need to take a step back and use language in…
Novice Level Proficiency… Novice level ACTFL Proficiency Performance Indicators 15 Mar 201815 Mar 2018 As I continue to interact with the ACTFL Proficiency Benchmarks, the clarity of the can-do statements keeps popping up. Head over to musicuentos for a nice overview of the Benchmarks…
ACTFL Can Do Benchmarks… Proficiency Can Do Benchmarks from ACTFL. 14 Mar 201829 Apr 2019 I have a nice opportunity to dig into ACTFLs new proficiency can do benchmarks with colleagues in my district. This is the kind of work I wish we had more…
Communicative Context… Find Someone Who Task: Task based learning builds community and creates novelty. 11 Mar 201829 Apr 2019 Communicative context. How do we create it in a classroom setting? It is a challenge because our classrooms simply do not offer many situations for authentic communicative context. The farther…
Activities that create input… Student Actors: When you just can’t come up with compelling; lean on your students. 22 Oct 201723 Apr 2019 Circling on it’s own becomes monotonous over time. Even so, I’ve learned that I am bored with circling much more quickly than students are bored with it. This was apparent…
Classroom Management What does acquisition look like in this crazy placed called “school?” 4 Oct 201723 Apr 2019 In various Facebook groups such as Teaching Latin for Acquisition, it seems we have approached the part of the school year when things start to get tough. It begins with…
Circling Circling: How slow is slow enough? 15 Sep 201725 Apr 2019 This summer I attended a TPRS workshop through TPRS books. We spent a LOT of time on circling. At first I thought it was going to be a drag of…
Comprehensible Antiquity 