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Monday, August 26, 2024

Draw-Your-Own-Picture BINGO

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This is a listening activity which I recently learned this summer from Donna Tatum-Johns at the Fluency Matters Conference in Denver. She de...
Monday, August 19, 2024

My Professional Learning Goal for the Year - Being Purposefully Communicative

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I have been teaching students for over two weeks already, and I feel like I am back in the swing of things, i.e., I have accepted that my su...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

PQA - Is This a Good or Bad Pizza Topping?

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I am now in my 2nd week of school with students. Things are definitely moving along, and like it or not, I am back in work mode. With my Lat...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

My Summer is Over

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Tomorrow is the first day of school with students. My summer vacation is officially over - I will return back to the real world of teaching ...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Using Diffit - Creating Differentiated, Tiered Readings

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Earlier, I wrote up a blog post about learning about AI and how it can be used in the classroom, especially for creating readings in the tar...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

What is Behind the Door?

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Here is a great 5-10 minute activity to use in class to reinforce vocabulary and structures  (and even to preview vocabulary) . It is a simp...
Monday, July 8, 2024

"Research Talks: Motivating Acquisition-Centered Classrooms" by Eric Herman - Book Review

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While I was at CI Iowa , I attended two sessions presented by Eric Herman regarding academic SLA research. I had never met Eric previous to...
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