Here are a few of my top takeaways from La Cosecha Conference 2018, which was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in mid-November 2018. It is a great conference with a wide variety of sessions available; anything from research-based from academics in the field of bilingual education, to practical hands-on workshops that provide you with ideas you can implement in your bilingual or immersion classroom the ... Read More about Takeaways from La Cosecha Conference 2018
Looking for the best 'Villancicos' or traditional Christmas song in Spanish? Look no further. Villancicos are popular Christmas songs often sang by Christmas Carolers that go door-to-door. Singing 'villancicos' is a fun way to celebrate Christmas spirit and holiday traditions in many Spanish speaking countries. These are great traditions for students in your classes or your own bilingual ... Read More about Best ‘Villancicos’ in Spanish
Your literacy or math centers will be a disaster and won’t work properly if you do not do (or think about) these things before you start centers in your bilingual classroom. Now if you read this article before the school year starts, that is great because you will have time to adequately plan. However, if you have started centers and they aren't going well reflect on what expectations and ... Read More about Center Procedures & Exceptions in Your Bilingual Classroom
New and even seasoned teachers have a lot of questions about the best ways to implement centers in their classroom. If you work in a bilingual, dual language or Spanish immersion elementary school, it is very common to see centers during literacy and math blocks. Some Spanish immersion schools follow particular programs such as the Daily 5 and others have looser guidelines and tell teachers ... Read More about Concerns about Starting Centers in Your Bilingual Classroom
This article gives you, ten activities you could use to have students practice speaking, listening, reading and writing when teaching a unit about travel, tourism or countries in your Spanish class. We have compiled a list of speaking activities in Spanish that you could use or adapt to your classes needs next time you are teaching a unit on travel. Many of them could be done as a quick daily ... Read More about Travel Speaking Activities for Spanish Class
