New Spanish Teacher: First-year Survival

Teaching World Languages

New Spanish teacher? Every Spanish teacher, native or not, has walked in your shoes. I did back in the 90s. Here are some tips for first-year survival. Here are some tips and resources to make your life easier as a new Spanish teacher. I want to share how to work in the 5Cs and not just […]

How I Used ChatGPT to Evaluate My Language Proficiency (And How You Can Too)

Assessing Language Proficiency, Teaching French, Teaching World Languages

Here’s how it went. I took transcripts of my spoken responses and pasted them into ChatGPT. Then I said, “Okay, evaluate my language proficiency.” One important note—if you try this yourself, make sure to tell ChatGPT that your transcripts are from spoken responses. That’s key. A writing sample is usually more polished and doesn’t reflect

How I Use AI to Check and Build My Language Proficiency

Assessing Language Proficiency

Today I want to share how I’ve been using AI—specifically ChatGPT—as both a proficiency checkpoint and a practice tool to help reach my language learning goals. Why I Still Believe in Human Evaluation Before we dive in, let me be clear: there’s no better measure of language proficiency than human evaluation. Personally, I’m a fan

Two Weeks of Beginning Spanish Lessons

Spanish 1 Lesson Plans, Spanish Lesson Plans

Kick off your Beginning Spanish Lessons with an immersive approach that introduces students to greetings, calendar routines, classroom commands, emotions, and cultural elements through interactive activities, visuals, and real-world practice. Lesson  1 Objectives: Students will work in the interpretive mode. They will learn to understand basic greetings, the calendar, the Pledge of Allegiance, emotions, meeting

Spanish Lessons: Teaching Clothing Vocabulary

Exploratory Spanish Lesson Plans, Spanish 1 Lesson Plans, Spanish 2 Lesson Plans, Spanish 3 Lesson Plans, Spanish Lesson Plans

Teaching clothing vocabulary in Spanish is one of my favorite themes. These lessons are fun, interactive, and full of opportunities for immersive comprehensible input and communicative activities. The following plan outlines activities based on a lesson bundle (or curated visuals from stock image sites). Day One: Introduction to Clothing Vocabulary Day Two: Interactive Practice and

Teaching World Languages: Comprehensible Input Vocabulary Quizzes

Exploratory Spanish Lesson Plans, Spanish 1 Lesson Plans, Spanish 2 Lesson Plans, Spanish 3 Lesson Plans, Spanish Lesson Plans

Comprehensible Input Vocab Quizzes Comprehensible Input vocab assessments are the perfect way to begin teaching a language to novice students. They learn how to listen, speak, read, and then finally write-the skill we master last. Select six to eight words from the group of words you’d like to teach. Get the visuals for each.  Start

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