Shayna, an AP Spanish teacher and reader of this blog writes: Hi Bryce, I've spent my 10-year career teaching Spanish at a private high school. I am very intrigued by CI, but as an AP Spanish teacher, I'm concerned that if I abandon some of my traditional teaching methods, [...]
On October 24 I had the privilege of visiting Colorado State University again as a guest lecturer. This was a follow up lecture to my first visit on September 5 in the graduate course Methods and Assessment in Teaching Languages, Frédérique Grim, PhD. In the first visit, I explained [...]
Pedro writes: Hello Sr. Hedstrom, Since attending a session at a California CI workshop back in 2019, I have loved using FVR in my classroom. As a matter of fact, I am including a couple of images to show how I can have as many as 90 titles on the [...]
Dale Carnegie's classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People has helped my teaching as much as anything I've ever read. I can't recommend it highly enough. I've worn out two copies over the last 40 years and I'm working on number three. Get this book! Here are the [...]
Here is the set list for the gig at Backyard Tap in Loveland. I sang Spanish songs with professional musicians Dave Kaufman and Roy Berliner for an hour, and then folk and light rock songs in English. Great fun! We sang a compilation of traditional songs in Spanish that [...]
Elizabeth writes: Hello Bryce, I am so glad to be part of this community. I have a question for you and hopefully you have some ideas. In my school we are being asked as a department to support other departments like Science, Math and English. So I am wondering [...]