Ben and I just finished recording the first episode of the new Season of SLAyyy! So check out the new episode on Monday! slayyypod.com #langchat

My biggest ask for PD this year is that everything we do makes me a better teacher or a better member of our school community. #langchat #edchat #edusky

Count your days, Grammarly. Telling me my tone sounds off because I sound "confident" >.>

A question for #psycholinguistics or #neurolinguistics folks: in therapy, EMDR or bilateral stimulation helps to process past events/trauma by, I think, activating both brain hemispheres. Sometimes it's done through auditory means. A beat moves from the left ear to the right ear. #langsky

We need to make sure language is accessible to all students in our class, that it is engaging enough for most, that we offer a variety of ways for Ss to demonstrate learning, and make sure that we regularly audit our materials for bias #LangChat

#LangChat Essential questions, IMO, help students see why what we learn is important. I try to write them in such a way that Ss can leave class and *know* what they think about a particular topic. So now I'm thinking about what will a S's answer to an EQ tell ME about the student.

A possible flow chart to help with this #langchat #langsky

Speaking of moving from topic to something more, I think I’ve been viewing essential questions like developing a research question. #langchat

Good reminder for me as a grad student, AND a good perspective to adapt and teach to students. #langchat #teachers

#langchat free intermediate Spanish unit on superheroes, identity and culture. How do superheroes and comics reflect the communities they come from? www.canva.com/design/DAGrS...

#langchat what are your best tips for creating Essential Questions for a unit?

www.loom.com/share/14230f... Check out my free “pets” unit at languageley.com/unit-plans #langchat

I feel like there are more people on Bsky I wanna follow and interact with, but tbh the app has a lot of moving parts and it’s overwhelming. How do yall have the app configured to make it easier to interact? And who’s got great Ed and lang Ed feeds they can share?

#LangChat I love being able to streamline lesson/unit planning. Here is a framework I've been developing, mostly I just needed to get the ideas on paper and out of my brain. Hope something can be useful here :)

One of the things I tried this year that I’m absolutely keeping next year is having students create infographics to demonstrate comprehension #langchat

#LangChat I wanted to reflect on my EOY book report project. Have you done anything similar? How was your experience?

Brain dump! In spn1, our final unit is just storytelling (not asking), and a bunch of reading. Stories are short, but have "richer" vocab. It's not as interactive as I'd like, BUT I am seeing some vocab growth. I've used AI to help me ensure that any new vocab is recycled #LangChat

Canva released new features so I had to go ahead and check them out! A lot of cool potential here, and now that they've got Sheets... I may be moving away from google workspace completely. Now if only they made it easier to share lesson plans/activities outside of Canva... #LangChat #TEachers #Canva

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Recently got reminded about calling imperfect tense "interruptible actions" so that'll be a pop-up I use and reuse. #langchat

ISO Language teachers for gender justice Are you a language teacher who wants to learn more about gender justice & collaboratively make free resources to support the teaching and learning of nonbinary ways of doing languages other than English? Interest form: bit.ly/GenderJustPL... Please share!

Instead of calling it “circling,” I now tell Ss I’m asking a “transparent question”. I tell them "We already know the answer to Transparent Qs, but I want to make sure we hear these new words over and over". #Langchat

Today in Spanish 4, we played bingo while listening to a podcast. I selected a bunch of short sentences, put them in L1, and as we listened to the pod to “cover” a square, Ss had to copy the L2 that they heard. It was fun, or at the very least Ss seemed to actually listen haha #Langchat

I maintain this links site for language teachers interested in reading about research. It also includes videos and a podcast or two. www.informedlanguageteacher.com

Updated link, make copies of documents: drive.google.com/drive/folder... #LangChat

This unit was out of this world! Here's some activities (doesn't have aformal assessment) I did a couple weeks ago. I think all of the links work, but if not email me and let me know 🙂 [email protected] docs.google.com/document/d/1... #LangChat

This chapter reminded me of an article by Henshaw in which she suggests writing a letter to a pen pal over a semester; each week students learning a new skill to express something about themselves. I'm actually doing that right now in Spanish 1. If that counts as PBLL, I'm in. #LangChat

TA: I missed #LangChat so so so much. Adding it to my calendar from now on!

I forgot that when I created this webquest, I had just learned about Dynamic Assessment in WL. The rubric assesses how independently a student completes the task. I don’t think I’d use it for scoring, but it’s a good idea to acknowledge what students can do independently or with help. #LangChat

I just need to go read this chapter when I get back from Spring break and I'll share more thoughts, but mostly questions about time management and ensuring Ss get the most input/interaction as possible #LangChat (Ps, love that you've dedicated a Q to asking for more Qs! @stacywitkowski.bsky.social )

A5: I think my infographic idea might have some teeth to its I'm excited to reflect more on that and hopefully share what works <3 #LangChat

Strength is that it shows students some idea of what language can do "beyond" the classroom. It's not exactly PBL, but I had to make a webquest for a course I'm taking and this could *kind of* be PBL www.createwebquest.com/spanish-our-... #LangChat

A3: In fact, in Spanish 4 we do an end of year FVR project. Over the course of two weeks (or so) Ss read an entire book and throughout the process they demonstrate comprehension of their book. Each class they have time to read and show com, at the end of the project they present their books.

A3: I do think we can do input-based projects. With my infographic assignments, I don't mind that they spend some time "out" of the language in class because they have to read (or listen) to their resource a lot to put the information in the graphic #LangChat

A3: This is a lot of peoples' hang up about PBLL, I think. It's a lot of output OR it's a lack of language to do all project based tasks IN the TL. Projects can be great, but are they the BEST use of the limited in-class time we have? #LangChat

A2: I'm not familiar with ESD, so I did a quick google search. Using Huellas from @senoracmt.bsky.social has taken be from a newbie to not such a newbie on this. #LangChat

A1: I have #HoningOurCraft but haven't read through all of it so I'll chime in as I can. I am coming around to PBL and how it can be used in a comprehension-based class. We have made a LOT of infographics in class recently as an interpretive "project" and it's been fun #LangChat

I'm Bill, I LOVE #LangChat! I'm in Indianapolis. A project I have been working on is an EdD. in Second Language Instruction and Instructional Leadership <3 I am just GIDDY that I was on bsky at the right time.

I need to get back into my online teacher communities. Is it here or on threads? Don’t tell me instagram, I don’t understand how to interact with people there lol #teachers #pln #plc

www.buzzsprout.com/2388349/epis... #langchat

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1. Use print friendly PDF extension to make easy to read PDFs of articles for students. 2. Set a custom paper size (I did 10 in wide, 5.5 in tall). 3. Upload PDF to Canva 4. Embed the design ? ? ? Success. #LangChat #EdTech #Canva

Hard to believe that on Monday, our baby will be 16 years...er, episodes old on Monday. They grow up so fast! Having a blast talking language acquisition research and teaching with Bill and Bryan. Take a listen to the pod! slayyy.buzzsprout.com

After listening to @liamprinter.bsky.social and his episode on turn and talk, I understood the importance of Ss regularly changing seats. I added these country cards to each desk, and made a stack of corresponding cards so now each week they draw a country card and find their seat for the week.

Just finished submitting my final assignments for the term. Oh boy was it a doozy 10 weeks. This term, I started with three courses:

We teachers need to normalize asking our students to teach us about how they see the world.

We were so excited to have the 2025 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, Kei Tsukamaki, on the pod to talk about creating positive classroom environments. And unexpectedly also about dog training?! Take a listen to our newest episode! slayyy.buzzsprout.com/2388349/epis...

So @languageley.com and I successfully bullied @monsieursmith.bsky.social into sharing his Master's thesis research on Standards-Based Grading in the World Language Classroom, and it's so interesting!!! Listen to us discuss it in the latest episode of SLAyyy: slayyy.buzzsprout.com

We often post expectations or rules in classrooms to hold students accountable. What about posting values instead?

Here’s what it looks like