by Terry Waltz | Jan 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Exhausted students need a break after completing a task In a recent Twitter thread, a teacher commented to the effect that a good tenet of classroom management is: Make sure kids understand they will be busy from the starting bell until class is dismissed....
by Terry Waltz | Aug 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
As we get ready to head back into the classroom for another year of acquisition through comprehended input, here’s a handy list of the top five things to…just not worry about. 5. Icebreakers. If you are communicating with your students, a community will...
by Terry Waltz | May 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
A reading group in the animal kingdom. On an online post, a teacher recently wrote: I would welcome suggestions of how to structure reading groups to target all three modes of communication. So you have a group of language students, and you have them in a group,...
by Terry Waltz | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Photo by Mert Guller But will your students be? Teachers go to demos, and teachers loooooove to learn new languages. That’s why we’re language teachers. We get excited by the grammar patterns, the new sounds, even (let’s face it!) the geekery —...
by Terry Waltz | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Keep the magic alive in your classroom! (Photo by Aron Visuals) The question was asked on social media recently: When y’all do special person interviews do you let the special person answer in L1? And like most things in life, the answer is “that...
by Terry Waltz | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Together forever…another happy match from a +1 that wasn’t left lonely!Photo by Jeremy Wong Weddings No, not for the wedding…or to fool the Chinese parents over Spring Festival…that’s been solved with all the useful rent-a-date...
