successes
November 21, 2008
Grammar learning vs. acquisition
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My 38 Spanish 1 darlings just turned in a stack of projects–they had to describe and illustrate five family members, at least one of them a plural set, at least one outside their immediate family. They had to tell me 1) what their name was, 2) ¿cómo es?, and 3) ¿cómo está? We worked on […]
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November 18, 2008
I’ve been grading these Spanish 1 tests lately. This is the test (for some reason the clip art didn’t publish well on Google docs). They did extraordinarily well on it. The average was somewhere around 32-33 out of 38 points possible. And keep in mind, all my tests are given with no warning at all. […]
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October 2, 2008
SCORE!
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I’ve had jury duty for two weeks. Because of that and our wind storm (thank you Ike), I’ve taught three days in the last three weeks. And during the two weeks I was gone, I came back every day or every other day, in the afternoons, to find a note from the sub about all […]
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September 4, 2008
What on earth is going on here?
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I’ve written about how I went to grad school and learned about second language acquisition (SLA) theory that revolutionized how I approached teaching. Then I attended an AP workshop where the facilitator used two Latin pop songs to illustrate how authentic Spanish media could be used in AP. I decided it was catchy and could […]
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