How is your classroom laid out? Is it conducive to communicative teaching and acquisition? Recently my principal came back from a visit to another school and showed me a picture (on his iPhone of course) of a classroom that made him think of me. The teacher had put several tables together and then cut a […]
It’s Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving. :o) Hope you’re enjoying your days off of school or whatever you’re up to this holiday. As I think about what’s been going right in my class these days, what to be thankful for there, I thought I’d let you know that in my difficult period, I finally had to give […]
Lest you think that I think that musicuentos is the fix for every language acquisition issue, I don’t. Friday was a good example of holding on to the good ones and trying to let the other stuff slide off my back while learning from it. This year I’m teaching six periods of Spanish–two Spanish 1, […]