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“No!” Culture needs to be at least 10% of the grade,” my colleague protested. “Then we have to make homework only 5% of students’ grades,” I countered. “It’s already hard to get students to [...]

I was a failure. How could I teach novels in Spanish and French? My high school tudents were running to their counselors begging to drop my class. The brave ones spoke up, tears of defeat and [...]

“You taught Spanish 3 last year! It’s my turn!” a Spanish teacher colleague said. Yep! In our world language department, we stake our claim to the coveted level three Spanish course. Then: [...]

I was listening to my husband talk about the college class he teaches. He said, “I’m going to assign a book report. Wait. I can’t do that anymore. They will just use Chat GPT to write it for [...]

I was so excited when I found out about autocorrecting Google Forms. They saved me so much time! But then, the same education technology that allowed me to create and use autocorrecting tests and [...]

When my students first began giving oral presentations in my AP Spanish Language and Culture course, they had trouble for three reasons: 1. They had little knowledge of cultural practices in [...]

In this blog post, I share activities and strategies that have worked well in my French and Spanish classes to increase student engagement, and therefore, to increase proficiency in reading, [...]

WORLD LANGUAGE CONFERENCE: You can now register for the Practical and Comprehensible Conference, one of the best professional development opportunities of the year for world language teachers. It [...]

Spanish Four is my favorite level to teach because students are highly motivated, but you don’t have to spend hours every day correcting essays as you do in AP Spanish. You DO have to correct [...]

You see a Spanish-speaking guy or gal, and it’s love at first sight (amor a primera vista), but you don’t have the language skills (or the courage) to approach the person. What do you [...]

When I was teaching, I could not find books for Spanish beginners or French learners, levels one, two, and three. There were plenty of novels for advanced students but not for principiantes. [...]

Oh, the horrors of grammar and conjugations charts! We want students to properly conjugate verbs, but we don’t want to drill and kill. Is there a way to provide comprehensible input for verb [...]