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Good Question: Genius Hour Experiment, part 9
They used their key words to pin and google around. They have Pinterest boards with 20 pins and at least 5 sources saved to Diigo embedded and tagged in the class blog.Now what?Those lucky teachers who...
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Free PD: Twitter Takeaways from #CSCTFL15
'Tis the season for awesome regional conferences! As if we didn't learn enough from tweets from #SWCOLT15 & #FLENJ15, #SCOLT15 & #CLTA15 (even more Free PD from over the years available here),...
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What I've learned from IPAs so far
#1 - My kids are amazing. They can do so much with the language in Spanish II!#2 - My tasks are a little off level-wise. But my kids are amazing anyway.#3 - AAPPL rubrics are also amazing.I have been...
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What Kind of Teacher Are You?
I was a third-year teacher when I first set out to describe what kind of teacher I was with this set of 10 sentence starters.I revisited it again 5 years later, and Timehop reminded me that was 4 years...
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Ganar el trofeo: Novice IPA #4 (reflexión)
Spanish II can almost taste their trophies! The skit group has been running lines and building props (the campfire looks awesome), and they've started blocking. The music group finally came to a...
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#CMSPL: 10 Questions and 9 Answers about Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning is not quite what I thought it was. I mean, I get the meaning of the word "personalize," and I'd heard about playlists and pathways at EdcampQC when Jill Thompson first mentioned...
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Conjugation Hand - New Twists
I like graphic organizers, especially those that students can always have on hand.Now I haven't taught a traditional conjugation chart in a few years, but, as Garnet Hillman once told me, the brain...
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10 Essential Verbs for Novice Spanish
Complete Verbos Esenciales poster setavailable on TeachersPayTeachers.comTen essential verbs have made all the difference in my students' confidence and target language communication. My students use...
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Project Conferences: True TL Collaboration
Groups of 10-15 students had positive, productive conversations before break, conversations lasting fifteen minutes or more in the target language.What's more is the conversations affirmed good...
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Festival Day IPA (Bonus novice IPA)
On the one hand, I want students to enjoy the festival experience and to be able to focus on giving a successful performance.On the other, there are SO many opportunities for meaningful target language...
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Success and Personalized Homework
I've been assigning students to assign themselves their own weekly homework assignments based on ACTFL Can-Do Statments this year. My goal was for students to get some extra practice with the language,...
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Classcraft in Spanish: Genius Hour Gamification
From here on out, it's all portfolios and passion projects.We accomplished our two big PBL projects (and took home a few trophies!). Both whole-class projects were time sensitive, so we couldn't start...
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Classcraft in Spanish: Day 1
Today I am awesome.I have plenty--PLENTY--of days like my amiga Amy describes, but today? Today was not one of them.Brace yourself for a lot of typing in capitals.Today easily 90% of the class was in...
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Personalized Genius Hour IPA Final
Each of my students gets his or her very own personally tailored final exam this year.Students have spent the last three weeks prior to exams rounding up resources (infographs, articles, videos, and...
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Why I Need More Verba Packs
Verba was one of the most exciting misiones we've had in Classcraft so far.When I gamified Genius Hour for the end of the semester, I set up about 10 misiones or "eventos aleatorios" for us to start...
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Don't Teach in the Target Language
Forget teaching in the target language. Forget teaching in the L1 too, for that matter. There's a third language that you should be spending 90% of class time using.Interlanguage.*I owe Thomas Sauer...
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Local LangCamp
We have yet to pull off a face-to-face LangCamp to get our LangChat compañeros together to plot and plan over the summer. But that doesn't mean we can't have our own LangCamp parties close to home!I...
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LMS Heavyweight Smackdown: Schoology vs Edmodo vs Google Classroom
My house is so much neater since I discovered Learning Management Systems. Well, I mean, it would be if it weren't for the first grader and pre-schooler I share it with. But you get my point: no more...
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ForAllRubrics: Proficiency Badges Made Easy
ForAllRubrics has helped refocus students' attention on proficiency and learning. Sure, there's still a little grade grubbing here and there, but now instead of requests for extra credit, I get...
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Novice Performance on Personalized Final Exams
Would you look at that? The majority of my babies performed at Novice High or BETTER at the end of Spanish II!Except listening. Ouch.What you see is a graph of the results based on the personalized...
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