90% Target Language, Comprehensible Input, or Immersion?? The biggest trends in French and Spanish language classrooms right now are 90% target language and comprehensible input. While I agree that these are…
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Spanish Ebook with Teaching Tips and Free Lesson Plans
July 16, 20172017 Spanish ebook, free Spanish lesson plans, games, activities, and teaching tips! Whether you’re new teacher or a veteran teacher, the 2017 Spanish ebook, is a definite must-have for your school year. Every year,…
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50 Free World Language Games!
June 28, 2017Do 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 statements…
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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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Anne-Marie Rocheleau, Teacher Feature #2
May 17, 2017Today we’re going to meet Anne-Marie Rocheleau, a veteran French immersion teacher from Ontario, Canada. Veteran Teacher: Anne-Marie Rocheleau, Les Ressources de Rocstar Subjects and Experience: Grade 5, French Immersion, 28…
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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 students speaking in the…
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20 Ways to Get Your Students Speaking in the Target Language
March 29, 2017Welcome to this blog series about ways to get your students speaking in the target language. Part 1 taught pointers and habits to change to be more successful. Today’s post, Part 2,…
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Gema Perez from Spain: Teacher Feature #3
March 27, 2017Today’s featured teacher is Gema Perez from Fun Monkey Bars. She lives and teaches elementary students in Spain. Here’s what she has to say: Her Teaching Background I was teaching dual…
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How to Teach Irregular Verbs
February 28, 2017In the first 2 parts of this series, we discussed how native speakers learn differently than language students and how to break down tricky verb tenses into manageable chunks by teaching…