We are less than a week away from March Music Madness 2024. Plenty of time to get in on what will sure to be the highlight of the year for your students. We recently sat down with Claudio Elliot on her podcast Growing with Proficiency to discuss the Music Tournament. One of the key talking points is how we can use music as a way to discuss in the target language, without having to study the lyrics.
Our resource drive is growing and the one thing you won’t want to miss is the Round 1 Matchup Slideshow which has all the links you need and is the perfect thing to project if you listen and discuss in class.
A recently updated document that you’ll want to look at before next Monday is the Teacher Digital Bracket Prediction Document and Google Form, where you can enter to win prizes award to teachers who have the best score. We also offer a version that teachers can copy and send out to their classes, or new this year is a national google form for students to submit their predictions.
Don’t forget to take pictures of your classroom bracket display (Here’s a folder of materials you can use) and post them in the social media thread of our Facebook Group. A randomly selected post will win a prize. You can also help spread the word about this bracket by posting pictures on social media and tagging us, @SpanishPlans.
Still not quite sure how you can use MMM in your classroom? Read the different ways teachers implement it in into their own classes and adapt it to make it fit their schedule and needs.
You can type the list in a quizlet set or in an excel spreadsheet and pass them out as the “answer key” for students to find the correct phrase to write underneath.
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With more and more teachers needed new ways to show student growth to administration, these two projects are just what every teacher needs. Our first product is our 
You can use this calendar as a guide to coordinate your vote with the rest of the participating classes. Have your students head to the voting page or share the direct link to poll. Note: If you participated in round 1 and your class winners were different, we encourage you to share the links with your students so they can cast their vote to help determine the national winner. You don’t need to follow our schedule as the polls remain open until April 3rd.
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Before the national voting begins on March 6, we suggest playing the songs in your class without bringing attention that they are part of any Locura de Marzo bracket. Play the music before class or while students are working. By the time March rolls around, they will say “I think I’ve heard that song before”. Sometimes it takes me several listens to a song before I start to really like it. 
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