Do you ever feel like you’ve made so many resources for your classes and that you just wish some veteran teacher would magically appear to give you some new, fresh ideas…
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2 Truths and a Lie: Based on a Teacher’s Life
June 12, 2017Today we’re going to be playing the classic “2 Truths and a Lie” game, based on the life of a teacher. See if you can guess which of the 3…
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7 Ways to Lose Weight without Exercising
June 6, 2017“How do some teachers do it?”, you may be wondering. “How do they look so good and stay in shape, when they get up early in the morning, teach, come home…
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Write an Amazing Interview Thank You Note
May 31, 2017Before reading “How to Write an Amazing Thank You Note after a Teaching Interview”, you may wish to check out the first 2 parts of this series, Catharyn Crane’s post on “Resume…
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Teacher Feature, Anne-Marie Rocheleau
May 17, 2017To help create a sense of community in our online teachers’ lounge for World Language teachers, we’ll be featuring World Language teacher profiles and stories. Join us as we take a…
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So, we’ve already talked about the changes that you need to make in your classroom to prepare for success and I’ve given you 20 strategies to get your students speaking in…
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Hopefully, by now you have read the first part in this series which gives you some pointers and teaches you some of the habits that you’ll need to change to be…
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Teacher Feature #3: Gema Perez from Spain
March 27, 2017Teaching can be so lonely sometimes so I wanted to create an online teacher lounge where all the language teachers can hang out. We’ll be sharing the up’s and down’s of teaching, as well…
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How to Teach Tricky Verb Tenses and Grammar, Part 2
February 28, 2017In the first 2 parts of this series, you learned how native speakers learn differently than language students and how to break down tricky verb tenses into manageable chunks by teaching…
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How to Teach Tricky Verb Tenses and Grammar, Part I
February 28, 2017Don’t you just love teaching tricky verb tenses? Nope, not really! In particular, the past tenses and the subjunctive can be so troublesome to teach. But why are they so hard to teach?…
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How Native Speakers Learn Differently Than Language Students
February 28, 2017When I applied for a new teaching position this month, it made me realize how much my language teaching philosophy has changed as a result of raising my own kids bilingually.…