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....

How do you teach your students about allllll of the Spanish-speaking countries and cultures around the world? Let them do the research and present to the class!...

I have always found having a bell work assignment projected on the screen as students enter class to be an easy routine.  Students sit down and get started on something that is suuuuuuper easy for them to do, and will remind them of what we previously did or get them ready for that day's lesson. ...

50 minutes goes by fast when you're trying to teach a lesson AND give students time to practice. If you're wondering how in the world you can fit it all in without figuring out a completely different schedule every day, here's how I structure a 50-minute Spanish class period. ...