One of my favorite aspects of my classes is teaching with music, and nothing makes me happier than to hear students say they downloaded the
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Planning my “El Salvador Civil War” Unit for Spanish 4
One of my favorite units to teach is my unit on the Civil War in El Salvador leading up to my MS-13 unit. I teach
Creating comprehensible input with commercials
Commercials are a really great way to infuse your language classes with a short burst of authentic language, but they are also really valuable as
An idealist meets the real world
Something I have always struggled with is the way that my own pie-in-the-sky huge teaching ideas don’t always play out in real life the way
Starting the school year fabulously
Going back to school is a really emotionally-charged experience for kids (and teachers). For kids, they feel most or all of the following: Nervous about
Would you rather…?
My Spanish 4 classes have been acquiring Spanish with comprehensible input methods all along, and they are GOOD. They are PROFICIENT. And guess what?
Kristy Placido 