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  • Teacher Interview Questions

    Whether you’re a new Spanish teacher looking for your first teaching job, a mom returning to the classroom after staying home with your kids, or a veteran teacher looking for a…

  • World Language Lip Sync Night

    How to Organize a World Language Lip Sync Night!   Here’s a quick overview of how it works.  The whole department works together to create a World Language Lip Sync Night…

  • Spanish Time Activities, Lessons

    Tick, tock!  It’s time to teach your students about Spanish time.  This post is chock full of great ideas for Spanish time activities, lesson plans, and resources so that your students…

  • Spanish Alphabet Activities

    Although many Spanish teachers don’t spend a lot of time on it, Spanish alphabet activities are a great way to create a strong foundation for spelling, writing, and correct pronunciation.  If…

  • Get Your Students Speaking Spanish

    5 Ways to Get Students Speaking Spanish What is the single most important thing that you can do to help your students communicate more effectively in Spanish this year?? Get students…

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    Incorporating Hispanic Culture

    Hispanic culture is an important part of language learning, but we often don’t spend as much time as we should teaching our students about other cultures.   Let’s be honest, most of…

  • Spanish Speaking Activities for Mondays

    Ok – so you probably read that title and thought, “She’s crazy!! Mondays are the worst!” But honestly, I do love Mondays because we do Spanish speaking activities.  Check it out:…

  • Preterite vs. Imperfect Activities

    Preterite vs. Imperfect Activities

    We all know that getting our Spanish students to understand preterite vs. imperfect is extremely tricky.  In previous posts, I shared how to teach preterite conjugations and my simple 5 question…

  • Spanish Commands Activities and Lesson Plans

    There are a lot of intricacies and nuances to teaching Spanish commands activities.  You start thinking, “No problem – commands – piece of cake”, but then you realize that students get…

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    9 Ways to Improve Student Writing in Spanish

    Let’s be honest – for many of our students, writing in Spanish is such a struggle. As teachers, grading 60-125 essays that are poorly written can be torture.  Imagine if you…

  • Best Day of the Dead Videos

    Day of the Dead Videos

    Looking for the perfect Day of the Dead videos to show in class to capture the essence of this colorful holiday?  Look no further!  Here are our favorites! Before we get…