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I walked into class with my cup of coffee and all the kids said “¡Hola!” in…
Author: Señor Fernie
I am a father of two wonderful boys and I am a K-8 Spanish teacher in the Orlando area (FL). I use comprehensible input teaching methods in my classroom and try to have as much fun as possible.
Promoting Student Success, Pt. 2: Managing the classroom
The second part in the series about how I can encourage success and not set students (and myself) up for failure. It’s been a while
Are these 17 statements about language acquisition true? Answers from the research.
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Here’s a list of popular assumptions about language learning and teaching from Lightbrown and Spada (2006).…
“I like that we don’t learn anything in Spanish class”
I gave one of my classes a reading assignment today. Generally, they like the stories that we act out in class, but they aren’t too
Connected Educator Month
Thanks so much to @senorG Noah Geisel for giving me a shout out today on Twitter. I didn’t know about Connected Educator Month, but I’m
Promoting Student Success, Pt 1
This will be Part 1 of an ongoing series of reflections and ideas for promoting students’ success in our classrooms. The idea is that with
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