Relistening to one of my favourite québécois songs, this incredibly catchy number about deciding what to wear this time of year by looking out the window and seeing how warmly dressed the passersby are (and whether they seem happy or miserable about their clothing choices)
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Necesito estos sellos para corregir tarea y exámenes.🤣
The faces of my Anglo students in Spanish 1 today as they found out what happens at the end of the movie Selena.
A teen girl wearing a blindfold hits a tiger piñata with a stick.
We finished reading Mata la piñata so of course we had a piñata party with churrumais and coca cola.
I had the perfect zombie piñatas: slightly damaged leftovers from years ago when I taught elementary Spanish!
I filled them with fruit and toothpaste. 😉
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Noooooooooo 😱
Update: the food was delicious! But way too messy to eat while reading. I needed two hands. If you’re at CSCTFL and you’re wondering about that suspicious spot on my pants today: it’s mushroom juice from the Veggie Seta Arepa. It was so good I have no regrets.
Photo of a small table showing an arepa stuffed with cheese, fried yucca, a brown beverage with a straw, and the book Arepas by Adriana Ramirez
How meta is it to read Arepas by Adriana Ramirez while eating arepas? Will the Colombian author forgive me for choosing a Venezuelan restaurant?
I hope you’re doing well and have something else great going on this weekend.
Me too!
Dr. Esmeralda Mora and I will represent LLLAB at Central States. We would love to see you there.
Jenga game of stacking wooden blocks and removing them
What I learned from this morning’s session at @cslang4all.bsky.social: native Spanish speaking teachers call this game “el juego de la torre” because the brand name sounds too much like a word that’s NSFW. 😂
It was a treat to meet language teachers from all over at the Central States Leadership academy yesterday. As the only language teacher at my school, it’s really special for me to be in a room with so many others who are passionate about language teaching. @cslang4all.bsky.social
Me too! ❤️
Thank you!
I’m heading to Chicago today for the Central States conference on teaching languages. I’m feeling equal parts excited and stressed. I miss #langchat today. In the past I could have found dozens of posts from online friends heading to the same event. Now I’m going to conference like it’s 1999.
Who else is reviewing ACTFL proposals the night before they’re due? 🙋♀️
Thanks for sharing!
My students:
“Bro!”
“Bru”
“BRUH 👀”
“Bro.”
None of them are brothers.
Sometimes they’re not even boys.
😂
I just heard a kid say “six-seven” but in an ironic tone of voice, like, “we all agree that we would never say that, right?”
No temas a las mariposas. 🤣
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Finally, you can control one more thing: choose the right people to work for. Some bosses are better than others. Look around. You might find someone else hiring who is able and willing to give you the conditions where you can be the best you know how to be. /🧵
You may have noticed I haven’t given any suggestions on talking to your principal or HR or the union. You can’t control what they do. And anyways best case scenario they won’t change things till the next academic year. These are things YOU can control.
I also don’t take home piles of papers to grade anymore. If Wednesday is the day students write essays, then Thursday is the day I sit in class and grade those essays while they do something independently. Maybe watch a movie. Maybe type those essays. Or illustrate them.
So I show a short 10 minute video or have them read independently at the beginning of every class while I check my email, enter student grades, clean off my desk, etc. If I’m not given enough student-free planning time, then I’m going to take time while students are there.
Not a mantra, but a really useful tip I wished someone had taught me early in my teaching career: build some down time into every class so you can get your own shit done. Yes, I know, circling the room and being engaged with students 100% is best practice. And exhausting.
This mantra helps too:
This is done. It’s not perfect, but I can stop now. Done is beautiful.
And then this mantra too:
My free time is mine. If I choose to continue to work without pay on evenings and weekends as my hobby, that is my choice. If I choose instead to meet a friend, take a bike ride, clean my house, play with my cat, watch a kdrama, that is my choice.
Repeat after me:
I am doing the job they have hired me to do. If they wanted the best teacher I can be, they would have put fewer students in my class / given me more paid prep time / hired two people for this job (whatever you need).
