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After tying in the semifinals twice, CALMA became this year’s winner in my classroom. 6th champion in 7 years. #MarchMusicaMadness #spanishteacher #locurademarzoSemifinals today! #locurademarzo #marchmusicanadness #maniamusical #spanishteacherIn need of an activity for the period? Play an audiobook of a chapter and have students draw what is happening. After I explain necessary background info (in target language, of course), we listen to the audiobook version. Takes up whole period. @fluencymatters #fluencymatters #tprsbooks #ciworks #comprehensibleinput #elekeko #spanishteacherSearch for this blog post on SpanishPlans.org #FVR #TPRS #spanishteacherLet’s stop pretending that Spanish class is just about memorizing verb endings! Communication happens through being an exchange of comprehensible utterances and negotiation of meaning. We need to empower our students to build their fluency! Knowing verb forms does not a communicator! #CIworks #spanishteacher #conjugation #language #learnlanguagesAnother way to practice lyrics of songs: check out our tutorials of using #lyricstraining by searching on SpanishPlans.orgWorld Language SLO
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- RT @d70profe: We have a winner!!! Calma by Pedro Capó is the 2019 March Música Madness Winner and will hang in the "rafters" of room 128 @H… 5 hours ago
- Printing the warm-up activity for the Monday when we come back from break. Write/Draw what you did over break. https://t.co/AIsDWasM3G 5 hours ago
- This is just f’ed up. twitter.com/istamembers/st… 1 day ago
- RT @ProfeMurray: Instead of translating problematic phrases in a reading, those Ss that understood led the way as we rewrote them in more f… 1 day ago
- By golly, it finally happened. We have a 41-41 tie in our #MarchMusicaMadness semi-final. Which song would YOU vote… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
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Leveling up
When a gamer beats a level of a game and moves on to the next level, it is called “Leveling up”. In certain games, you can increase your chances by earning more points, collecting coins, or obtaining specific weapons to … Continue reading
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Tagged ACTFL proficiency levels, level up, proficiency
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Proficiency Mindset Presentation
This past month, at the Illinois Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ICTFL) annual fall conference, I gave my first presentation in a session titled “Proficiency Mindset”. To view the presentation click: http://bit.ly/ProfMindset Let me know … Continue reading
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Tagged ictfl, ICTFL18, language acquisition, presentation, proficiency
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Get a scoop of Proficiency
It was last year that I blogged about Promoting Performance, and I adopted Shelby County School’s ice cream metaphor throughout the year to talk about performance and proficiency with my students. My phrase to students on assessments or just to encourage them … Continue reading
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Tagged ACTFL proficiency levels, performance, proficiency
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Promoting Performance
In a performance and proficiency based classroom, students coming from traditional classroom needs some guidance. Musicuento uses an example of a “Talking about a taco” to show the different proficiency levels. Can you use singular words to talk about a … Continue reading
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Starting at the End
If you are a language teacher, then you know the best night of the week is Thursday evening. This is when some of the best world language teachers come together to collaborative and improve themselves as educators. You don’t even … Continue reading
Proficiency Based Exam
After finishing our recent unit and taking the proficiency-based assessment, I gave the students a short google survey to gather some feedback. I think it is important to give students a voice in their learning and let them know you … Continue reading
Proficiency Based Exam
At the beginning of the school year we undertook a new philosophy of teaching and assessing our students. As we discussed in our Communication Rubric post, our assessments would assess what students are able to produce themselves, instead of what they … Continue reading
Bulletin Board 2012
In conjunction with my switch to a more proficiency based classroom, I decided to dedicate one of my bulletin boards this year to proficiency levels and the four modes of communication. The main bulletin board I used for the Listening … Continue reading
Speaking and Writing Rubrics
In our last post, we offered a short communication rubric to give to students or hang up in your classroom to motivate students to work at a higher proficiency level. Today, we are posting our Writing and Speaking rubric that … Continue reading
Communication Rubric
This year we are adopting a proficiency-based classroom based on the goal of communication. All of our formal assessments will be done using proficiency-based rubrics and standards. This change in format would not have been possible without my colleagues from … Continue reading
