How can you improve your communication to effectively give meaningful feedback to students? Last week, #langchat took on the extra important topic of figuring out ways to effectively communicate with students in order to give them meaningful feedback that will help them make improvements in their language learning journey. Participants started by sharing their tips […]
What’s the top complaint of elementary world language teachers? TIME. I cannot tell you how often I hear teachers and world language district specialists alike lament the prevailing mood in schools and districts that we really ought to be producing better results in language proficiency in our younger learners, and we really ought to be […]
How can an activity sheet that requires writing be made effective for kids who can’t read or write? Multi-sensory is certainly the way to go when teaching all ages of learners, but especially very young ones. Games? Yes! Songs? Oh, yeah! Play-doh? Why not? Children learn language better when they can experience it in many […]
Las week, #langchat took on the super important topic of how the world language classroom might be able to change it’s grading system to all for more of a focus on building proficiency in class rather. Contributors talked through their decision processes for choosing which assignments will receive grades, along with thinking through the benefits/challenges […]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin For the last #langchat of October, participants decided to talk through the finer points of how to successfully collect and assess data in the world languages classroom in order to improve teaching and instruction. Participants talked about the types of data that they find the most helpful, as well how […]