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 […]
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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 games for Core and Immersion
Playing games in French class is so important for engagement and student learning. Providing students with ample ways to apply the language both orally and in writing will help students of all learning styles as they practice. Whether you teach FSL or immersion, fun games are an effective learning tool that students will love! Here […]
Intermediate/Advanced
Do you teach students who have had more than a few years of French and are moving on to work on more complicated structures? While these classes can be really fun to teach, they can be hard to prepare for. You need to provide just the right challenge without frustrating students, but the grammatical concepts […]
Beginning French
Do you teach French 1 or beginning French? It can be so fun to be the one to introduce them to the Francophone world, but it is not easy to teach from square one! You need to engage them with fun activities, provide differentiation, introduce culture, give them ample opportunities to speak and listen to […]
FREE French summer writing activity
Are you still teaching? Do you teach summer school? How about a free French summer writing activity that will help your students practice their vocabulary and verbs and save you time when you need a quick and quiet activity? Get a summertime writing activity for FREE at my TpT store. Students complete basic sentences using common present […]
French spring teaching resources
Spring is here! Spring fever hits students so hard every year, so it’s a great idea to have some French spring-themed teaching resources ready to go for when the time is right. Whether you want to do a whole French spring unit or just like to have no-prep activities on hand for early finishers or […]
Making the most out of leftover class time
Having leftover classtime can be such a challenge! What do you do? Grab some easy ideas to use in any class here, plus find activities that work perfectly in the French classroom! One thing I’ve learned as a teacher is that things just don’t always go as you planned. Maybe there was a fire drill […]
Learning French Verbs Should Be Fun!
Yes, you can make it fun to learn French verbs! Often, when I tell people I’m a French teacher, they tell me that they took French in high school and they had a hard time with all those FRENCH VERBS! Yes, there are a lot of verbs to learn, and then a lot of tenses […]
