If you teach heritage speakers, Spanish 3, 4, 5, or AP Spanish, you need to get this book into your students' hands. El libro salvaje, by Juan Villoro, was published in Mexico and has been around for some time, but Spanish teachers in the United States may not be [...]
Latin students in one of my classes wrote, produced and performed a play in Latin. It was a smashing success and I think other teachers can make something like this happen too. (For an idea of what is working in my classes and how the relationships with students are [...]
THIS IS ABOUT LATIN CLASS BUT THE ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS APPLY TO ALL WORLD LANGUAGES Last year my daughter started a classical school in Denver and asked me to teach Latin. I didn't know Latin, but I took up the challenge and decided to learn and teach it the [...]
You can't always trust cat gut or ChatGPT (see the end of this article). Here is a typical conversation I’ve had recently with ChatGPT. I keep experiencing that the first answer is ALMOST ALWAYS wrong. I have to double and triple check from other sources, and I have to [...]
Jonny, a Mandarin teacher who saw my recent presentation on Special Person Interviews, had some questions about the process. We've had a conversation about it and here are the results. Before answering Jonny's questions, I need to make this crucial point: Follow-up questions are the most important part of [...]
David, a successful veteran teacher relatively new to teaching with C.I. writes: Bryce, I am frustrated by the fact that I enter every semester with the good intentions of doing CI. I start, and then I get frustrated as I don't see the results and don't feel skilled enough [...]