Student Engagement

How do you engage students during distance learning? That’s the question I have heard multiple times from frustrated teachers grappling with the challenges of the new learning environment. In [...]

What are digital escape rooms and why should you use them in your world language class? I will answer both of those questions in this post.

Can you believe I found (or created) 100 Attention Getters for Spanish One? That’s hard to do because most memes and jokes are too advanced for level one students. But, I still want to reel [...]

Anne is bored, scrolling through Instagram. John can’t answer the question “¿Cómo estás?” And when you ask Marie, “Ça va ?” she only stares back blankly. Are you [...]

You will be going back to school soon and it will be time to set up your classroom. If you want to have a successful year, it’s important to prepare properly. You wouldn’t invite 30 people to [...]

How to Plan a Great Closure Activity for World Language: Finally! Here is the World Language Lesson Plan Check List I’ve been promising you. This post lists the most important elements of an [...]

When I first wrote this post, I assumed most readers would be veteran teachers. Since then, I have communicated with many world language teachers about their struggles with student behavior. [...]

The school year is almost over and I marvel that the hurricane of energy in my Spanish One class has funneled itself into an orderly group of students who speak Spanish and seem to love learning. [...]

How to Motivate Students For the past six years I have been teaching upper-level Spanish classes, including AP Spanish, working with highly-motivated students.  In order to sharpen my skills [...]

 Are you struggling to use the target language 90-100% in your world language classroom?  Here are a few tips that have worked well for me. TIP #1  Guarantee that students enter [...]