motivation
February 28, 2019
My father was a white male. He lived the last 32 years of his life in the Deep South. After he became an evangelical Christian around the age of 30, he attended independent Baptist and Southern Baptist churches for the rest of his life, and he always voted Republican. Now that you have the picture in […]
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February 20, 2018
I saw a tweet by a professor with 41,000 followers. I listened to a podcast by a teacher who wrote a book, and has a sponsor, and knows everybody. I read a book by a consultant who knows I could do better if I could just do it right, though he left the classroom to be a […]
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December 30, 2016
Revealing that some themes consistently speak to what we need to hear and want to use, the top Musicuentos post of 2016 was a simple repost of the previous year’s homework choice systems update. The post explains how I incorporate a homework choice system and offers links to see what other teachers do as well. […]
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October 31, 2016
How did you get to be a proficient speaker of your second (or third, etc.) language? I need your help. In just over two weeks (two weeks!) I’ll be giving one of the ImpACTFL Voice talks at the ACTFL Exposition & Convention. The topic is “Pathways to Proficiency.” It’s no secret I love to talk about […]
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June 13, 2016
Here’s a question for your summer: Can you dare to go YONG? At the end of the 2013-2014 school year, I was finishing a seven-year stint at a particular school. In a nutshell, the school had a new administrator that year and had swung from what some might call a little too much chaotic familiarity […]
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February 20, 2015
I’m looking forward to participating in a special interview with Paulino Brener on his EPC Show in about a week. Join us online to talk about motivational aspects of our curricula. Cross-posted from Paulino Brener at epcshow.com and you’ll find out more about where to find the video here: Join me on Saturday February 28 […]
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February 17, 2015
Shall we talk labor and delivery a moment? I suspect I have your attention! No worries, I’m not going to get gross. I don’t think so, anyway. But you will get to know me a little bit better. When I was pregnant with my third child, some family friends were visiting, a couple and their […]
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August 26, 2014
When I posted last year about my latest update on the Elige tu propia aventura homework choice activity, the post quickly became one of the top 10 of the year. Accordingly, I frequently receive requests for my list of options and how I divided them into a point system. The problem is that I was experimenting […]
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June 3, 2014
Time for you to get feedback?
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For many of you, especially in the southern U.S., this is coming a little too late, but some of you may still be in school and have a chance to do this. If you haven’t thought about surveying your students, it’s a great way for you to get feedback on the one thing that really […]
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If you listened to episode 3 of the Musicuentos Black Box Podcast, you heard all about the first two parts on Daniel Pink’s book on influencing others, To Sell Is Human, including why all of us (and especially those of us in education) are in sales now, and what we should be in order to effectively […]
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March 13, 2014
Is this the best we can do?
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Last September Martin Lapworth wrote a blog post called “On CI, TPRS, Acquisition, etc. (I so want to believe…)“. As I read it and the comments on it (which, incidentally, include one authored by CI king Stephen Krashen), I found myself asking a question that I’ve felt for a long time is forefront in the […]
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June 12, 2013
Guest post: Coaching with choice
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This semester I was blessed and honored to teach an amazing group of kids who were coachable. Coming from an athletic background, this concept of being “coachable” is one of the most valuable traits that a coach can have in a player. The coachable player is one who may not have the best skills or natural […]
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