My posts

I will write when I have something to say.  Started this page in February 2017.  Here are  a few of my posts which you may be interested in reading:

One day in heritage language teaching:

• One Day In Online Heritage Teaching – April 2020
• One Day In Online HLT on April 23rd – Calls for Submissions
• A one-day snapshot of HLT 2018
• What heritage language teachers did on November 13, 2019
• One Day in HLT:  What heritage teachers did in class on October 3, 2018
• Participate in “One Day in HLT” 2019!

General teaching

• Four characteristics observed (and heard) in an expert teacher’s classroom in August          Includes original audio clips!

General language teaching:   

• Explicit grammar teaching – the baby, the bathwater, the balance
• My ideal language classroom – If I could dream big
• Pinpointing everything:  Reflections on language teaching after OPI workshop

Heritage language teaching:

• Differentiating grammar instruction with heritage students
• On the differentiated instruction journey with heritage learners / proficiency
• Part 1: The most important thing to improve your heritage students’ proficiency
• Part 2: The road to ‘Superior’, and getting heritage teachers there
• Starting up a heritage language program – Day #1 takeaways from heritage language conference at University of Texas at Austin
• Heritage goals, heritage teachers, and random ideas – Day #2 from June 2018 workshop at Univ of Texas
• “But they already speak Spanish” – In defense of heritage program
• Una leyenda, y después yerba mate
• Are your heritage classes producing results?  How do you know?