1 Easy Tip to Keep Multiple Classes on the Same Pace

You know when you teach 3 or 4 (or 5… oh god or 6??) Spanish 1 sections… and one of the classes is highly motivated 🤓. And one of them can’t stop talking 🤪. One of them is right after lunch when everyone wants to sleep 🥱. Then the last one is full of jokesters 🤡… like each class has its own personality.

And one section flies through the material. And of course one of them doesn’t… each class moves at a different pace.

If you teach Spanish 1 and Spanish 2, and all of your Spanish 1 classes move at different paces, then it’s like having 5 preps instead of 2.

Hard. 👏 Pass. 👏

I’m not about that life where I have 5 preps.

Those classes are all going to stay on the same material at the same pace through the curriculum if I have anything to do with it.

There is no world in which one of my Spanish 1 classes will be learning ir + places vocab and the next class is a day behind with present tense verbs. And the next class is two days behind where I’m introducing present tense verbs with yo & tú forms… no. thank. you.

It’s way easier to just teach the same lesson 3 times.

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When I have different sections of the same class that move at different paces, I plan for the fastest-moving class and everyone else will skip things.

#makeitwork

So for each day’s lesson, I create what I will do with that fast-paced class. Then the other slower-moving classes will skip Actividad 3. Or they won’t play that game. Or they’ll only do #1-10 instead of #1-20… whatever makes sense. Whatever helps them master the material and stay on the same lesson as we move through the curriculum.

I consider this working smarter and not harder.

What do you do to keep various sections moving at the same pace through the curriculum? Share your ideas in the comments below!