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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! We hope your holidays are starting off nicely and that everyone is enjoying this festive season. This past Thursday we held a fun #langchat conversation that we haven’t done before — lesson plan sharing and discussion. If you weren’t able to make it, open up a new tab […]

This past Thursday, we had a great discussion on the best ideas on how to engage world language students with current issues and events in the classroom, and participants shared lots of great resources and tips. As always, please feel free to share the summary and #langchat with your colleagues and fellow language enthusiasts. If […]

Welcome back to #langchat, everyone. We hope your Thanksgiving holidays were as relaxing and turkey-stuffed as ours! This week we have Thursday night’s #langchat summary available for everyone who wasn’t able to make it to the discussion. Please feel free to share links to the summary with all your friends and colleagues — anyone who […]

Happy (almost) Thanksgiving, Everyone! This week’s post is to present a summary of our weekly Twitter professional development as well as announce an exciting new development from #langchat. In early December, from all the participants of our weekly meetings, we’ll release an e-book on the best electronic resources for world language classrooms. The e-book is […]

This past Thursday on #langchat, participants discussed and shared ideas on a very challenging topic, “What strategies help you accurately assess individual students?” The debate was lively and lots of great tips were spread around, and we’ve included highlights and a summary of the chat below. Thanks to all our participants for your great ideas […]

This past Thursday we had a very exciting and active #langchat with lots of great debate, tips and resources shared! Our topic was “How is culture best presented in the world language classroom?” Participants showed up en masse and we had a fantastic evening of professional development. Thanks to all our participants for the evening, […]

This past Thursday we had a steamroller of a #langchat crammed full of resources and suggestions from our enthusiastic participants! Thanks to everyone for showing up, and especially to @CalicoTeach, @dr_dmd and @SECottrell for moderating. If you couldn’t find the time to make it out, it’s not too late to join the discussion. Please feel […]

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Thursday night’s #langchat, and thanks especially to our moderator for the night, Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell (@SECottrell). Our topic for the night was “How can we make our feedback more effective?” Effective feedback is a popular issue, and teachers often struggle with the best method to provide it. Participants had […]

Thanks to all the participants of Thursday night’s #langchat! We had an animated discussion on the best ways to get kids speaking productively in large world-language classes. Lots of you were able to join us, and we shared a fantastic amount of ideas and resources for use in the classroom. Thanks again to all our […]

We had a remarkable #langchat this past Thursday with a large turnout! Many participants shared their thoughts on a very important topic for world-language educators: How can we collaborate with school administrators to provide strong world-language programs? Thanks to all our participants and especially to @SECottrell and @dr_dmd, our moderators for the night. As always, […]