Want your students to practice their French language skills outside the classroom? Let’s face it : Learning a new language can be so much fun, but unless students are learning in an immersion setting, they are going to need a lot of practice outside of your classroom! It’s part of the ACTFL standards, so if […]
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Effective French Reading Practice For All Levels
Whether you’re teaching FSL or French immersion, it can be challenging to find French reading practice you can use with all of your students. We all know that in each classroom, we have a variety of ability levels, making it a challenge to use the same text. Sure, we can read a bunch of different […]
Differentiated Writing Activities for French Made Easy
Chances are, if you teach writing, your students have a wide range of ability levels in the same classroom. Using differentiated writing activities can really help you challenge all students, but it also will give them a lot of confidence when they work at the right level. Here are some differentiated writing activities I’ve used […]
Easy Ways to Support Learning Styles in the French Classroom
We have so many different students in our classrooms, so it’s probably not surprising that we have different learning styles in every class we teach. When you are looking to differentiate your lessons, it’s important to provide a variety of activities to support all learning styles so that everyone can maximize their learning. What are […]
5 Easy Ways to Build Relationships With Students
As a teacher, you know how important it is to build relationships with students. Creating strong relationships with your students helps them feel more comfortable in the classroom, but a good teacher-student relationship also encourages them to learn and grow. Making connections with a room full of unfamiliar faces can be a daunting task, particularly […]
5 Easy Ways to Build Classroom Community
As French teachers, one of our primary goals is to help our students feel comfortable and confident speaking and learning the language. However, it’s important to remember that students won’t be able to reach their full potential if they don’t feel like they’re part of a supportive community. Fortunately, there are a few simple steps […]
5 Easy Ways to Use Comprehensible Input in Your French Class
One of the biggest challenges for language teachers is to get their students speaking and understanding the language, particularly in the early stages. While there are various methods for teaching a new language, the use of comprehensible input has been found to be particularly effective. What is comprehensible input? Comprehensible input is any language that […]
5 Easy and Practical Tips for Avoiding Teacher Burnout
As a teacher, it can be all too easy to fall into the trap of working long hours, taking on too many responsibilities, and neglecting your own self-care. Unfortunately, a lot of us have experienced teacher burnout where we are emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted. Teacher burnout can seriously impact your well-being and ability to […]
5 easy classroom management strategies that work
Good classroom management strategies make teaching so much easier! Teaching a foreign language can be challenging, and even more so if the students are learning it for the first time. As a French teacher, you know how important it is to encourage your students to speak the language and follow class rules, but that doesn’t […]
5 simple and engaging French read aloud ideas for secondary
French read aloud activities are an excellent way to build both language skills and content knowledge in a secondary language classroom. By using a French read aloud with strategically selected tasks afterwards, teachers can help their students develop important French reading skills such as inference, synthesis, and analysis. Whether you are reading a French novel […]