Another school year is almost here. Starting off the new school year is a new beginning with new opportunities... and it's always exciting! I was driving a backroad in northern Colorado the other day and came upon this scene. A forest fire had swept through this hillside a few [...]
Classroom jobs let you do your job. In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick there is a short chapter entitled The Dart that correlates with teachers' need to assign classroom jobs. The chapter talks about the role of the harpooner on a whale hunt. The role of the teacher in the classroom [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There was a noteworthy article in the May 1, 2021 Atlanta Journal Constitution, Foreign Language Classes Get the Conversation Going, by H.M. Cauley. You can read the original article here. Below are some select quotes from that article and my commentary about the world language classrooms of Allyson Segal [...]
Variety. Our students are not all alike. If we want them to grow, we need to let them wander in their reading. They should naturally be reading different materials to suit their different interests and needs. .