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3 Areas to Reflect Upon Over the Summer
¡Hola profe! Has your summer break started yet? If not, hopefully you’ve only got a few days left! Whenever your summer begins, it is the perfect time for us as teachers to rest, recharge, and reset. I hope that you are planning to spend lots of time doing what you love! Summer also provides us…
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3 Essential Tasks to Complete Before Leaving School for the Summer
¡Hola profes! I hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend and are feeling rested, recharged, and ready to finish up the year strong! Let me know if you can relate to this: As the year winds down, I’m finding it more difficult to dredge up the motivation to do all the end-of-the-year things that…
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Fun and Engaging Ways to Review for Finals in Spanish Class
¡Hola profes! I don’t know about you, but I cannot believe that May is winding down already! Maybe it’s the craziness of this month – field trips, school concerts, state testing, AP testing, and more – but I feel like the time is flying by! While I’ve still got a few weeks of school left,…
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Engaging End-of-the-Year Activities and FREEBIES for Spanish Class
¡Hola profes! At this point in the year, we are well into la primavera and are making that last push to get us to the summer. How many more days do you have?? This time of year can be challenging for many reasons – spring fever, state testing, AP exams, and more are affecting my…
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Alternatives to Traditional Final Exams in Spanish Class
¡Hola profe! How many days do you have left in the school year? I’m still in school until the middle of June, but hopefully you’re out way before me! Even though I’ve still got a little more than a month left in the year, I’ve begun thinking about final exams. We are required to give…
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Cinco de Mayo Activity Ideas for Spanish Class
¡Hola profe! Tell me if you can relate: May 5th rolls around and your students want to know if you’ll be having a Cinco de Mayo party in class. You ask students what Cinco de Mayo signifies, and your students excitedly answer…it’s Mexican Independence Day. While we, as Spanish teachers, know that is NOT the…
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Earth Day Environment Activities for Novice-High/Intermediate-Low Learners
¡Hola profe! April is here and you know what that means – longer days, warmer weather, and, with Earth Day being this month, you have a perfect opportunity to teach an environment unit to your Spanish students! What I love most about teaching about the environment is that there are SO MANY resources out there…
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Earth Day Environment Activities for Intermediate Spanish Learners
¡Hola profe! April is here and you know what that means – longer days, warmer weather, and, since Earth day is on April 22, you have a perfect opportunity to teach an environment unit to your Spanish students! What I love most about teaching about the environment is that there are SO MANY resources out…
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5 Canvas Hacks for World Language Teachers
¡Hola profes! As teachers, I think most of us have a love/hate relationship with technology. Sometimes it doesn’t work the way we want or need it to, and it can cause unnecessary distractions for students at times. But when it works well, it can really save us time, sanity, and energy! One of my favorite…
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Easy Formative Assessment Ideas for Spanish Class
¡Hola profes! Did you know that, on average, teachers make more on-the-spot decisions per minute than brain surgeons? At first, that sounds crazy, right? But, when we really stop to think about it, we are CONSTANTLY asking ourselves questions – are students ready to move on to something new, or do they need more practice…
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