Author Archives: langleywe

These are the expectations I have posted at the front of my room that I review EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. It’s important for me to review them every day. It’s a procedure that students know to expect, and it reminds me to be consistent. When writing these I tried to make them all encompassing but atContinue reading “My classroom expectations”

As a department, we noticed students having trouble identifying subjects that included ‘I” with other people. So I decided I wanted to come up with something to circle the “I” and “we” subjects. I decided I’d do some picture PQA. The prompt was simple: Draw an activity that you do with other people. I had studentsContinue reading “Circling “I” and “We” during PQA”

EDIT: NEW with Textivate: Student passwords. Students can now save progress on sequences and continue on other devices, or at a later date.   I LOVE Textivate! Textivate is a website that allows students to manipulate texts in various ways. And it’s SO easy to use. You paste in your text, hit “textivate” and youContinue reading “How I use Textivate in class”

I am employed as a Spanish teacher. I go in every day and do my best to teach them. In my short three years as a teacher getting students to know what I want them to know has been so hard. Maybe it’s that my expectations are too high. Maybe they don’t know what IContinue reading “What I want my students to KNOW.”

I believe there are two main (classroom) reasons why students lose focus and start being disruptive in a CI class. 1)The input you’re (read: I am) giving is boring. And 2) the input that you’re giving is incomprehensible. This is my third year teaching, and third year using TCI/TPRS in my classroom. Every year, everyContinue reading “It’s never too late to start over.”

Originally posted on The Inclusive Latin Classroom:
In my last post, I talked about not knowing what students walk in the room with. This was reiterated in the comments on the post and I believe an important discussion was started and is continuing in our blog posts. This post, as a continuation of my last…

I LOVE using student generated pictures to do PictureTalk. You might be able to tell that, though, from my current obsession with my PicScripts. Recently I’ve ditched my doc cam in lieu of taking pictures on my phone and airdropping them to my computer which is hooked up to my projector. It takes about 10 secondsContinue reading “Class Booklets=Class Readings”

The first month of 2017 has given me a lot to think about as a teacher. At my school, students change schedules at the semester, so I might have students who had a different teacher first semester. I got A LOT of new faces at semester change, and lost a lot of faces at semester change.Continue reading “Resolutions and Reflections”

Sometimes, when we get students from non-CI teachers we have to ease the students into CI activities. That was the case with one of my classes this year. I could not, for the life of me, get student actors for stories. I couldn’t get funny suggestions, I couldn’t get anyone to do persona especial. ItContinue reading “Using pictures with a story-script”