Do you need an easy way to formatively assess your students’ understanding of a lesson? Try exit tickets! They are a quick way to see just what your students understood from your lesson. They are called exit tickets because you pass them out at the end of class and collect them as students head out […]
When Your Principal Doesn’t Understand
Foreign language teachers : Do you have a principal that just doesn’t understand you? Are you frustrated with unfair scheduling, teacher evaluations that favor certain subjects, or teaching requirements that are impossible to meet? Read on! I have a lot of teacher friends, and when we talk about difficulties we have had as teachers, a […]
Tips for teaching boys
Teaching boys and girls together can be tricky. It has been thoroughly researched and proven many times that boys and girls do, in general, have some distinct learning differences. As all students have their own distinct learning styles, the needs of boys and girls can be quite different. When I wanted to know how to […]
French Christmas activities
When Christmas-time rolls around, it’s always fun to have a lot of activities to teach seasonal vocabulary. When I taught FSL in a high school, I had four levels of French to teach, which meant I wanted materials I could use with all my levels. My French Christmas activity bundle is full of engaging speaking […]
Teaching with anxiety
Teachers have a tendency to worry a bit much, to work too hard, to plan too much, to want everything to be just right. Everyone gets a little worried sometimes. We all have things that stress us out, and this is a normal biological response. For some of us, though, that stress never goes away, because […]
