Thanks to Kirstin Plante of tprsacademy.com in The Netherlands for translating the Persona Especial posters into Dutch. See the Dutch classroom posters here. Dank u zeer, Kirstin! There are also "Persona Especial" posters in Spanish, French, German, Latin, Japanese, Russian and Hebrew on the brycehedstrom.com "Free Stuff" page: https://www.brycehedstrom.com/free-stuff
Engaging students at a personal level is the way to their hearts and minds. Aaron Mendelsohn, a high school teacher in Massachusetts, sent me this note the other day: I just want to share with you that I have gotten A LOT of mileage out of Persona Especial! What [...]
Here is another guest post from my friend, Gerry Wass on his MULTI-LEVEL CLASSROOM experience: “La preuve que il a existé c’était qu’il était ravissant.” "The proof that he existed was that he was lovely.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A year and a half after retiring, I continue to get [...]
Connie Navarro visited my classroom on March 8, 2018. Her observations are particularly valuable because she has so much experience observing CI teachers. Connie has been a Peer Observer in the Denver Public Schools for the last five years and is the president of the Colorado Congress of Foreign [...]
Conducting student interviews in the target language does not have to be complicated. Interviews do not have to be long and they do not have to add a lot of new vocabulary. With practice, we can learn fascinating things about students that even their closest friends do not know--all [...]
These are the results of Special Person Quiz #2, the second full week of school. This week we interviewed just three students. Since the verb "tiene" (has) had been added there were many more opportunities for questions, answers, comments, clarifications and follow up than with the meager vocabulary student [...]