Anti-racism teaching resources for Spanish language classes For the past 5 years, I have had the extraordinary good luck to work with the team that produces the… Posted on: August 25, 2020 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Oh..hello Clearly it has been a while. In fact I am sure somewhere out there Ryan is giggling because as the… Posted on: January 31, 2020 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Using Can-Do statements for student self assessment Once again this semester I asked my students to do self directed and self-graded projects as part of my conversation… Posted on: May 9, 2017 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Saying goodbye to a fellow troublemaker I won't be the first person, nor the last, to mention that 2016 has been an awful year in many ways.… Posted on: December 12, 2016 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Long road trips and the joy of audio I took a wee break from blogging last week during our fall break, during which I drove about 2000 miles… Posted on: October 27, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Audio self evaluations Readers of this site know that I have spent a lot of time researching ways to help students learn to listen… Posted on: October 15, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Listening Journals Developing one's listening and speaking abilities is a slow, sometimes invisible process. In a 16 week semester it sometimes feels… Posted on: October 8, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
“I don’t feel so alone anymore!” At the beginning of this semester I tried something new with our language faculty. I should mention that the beginning… Posted on: October 6, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Promoting Less Commonly Taught Languages A few years back I started a little project to support the speaking and sharing of less commonly taught languages… Posted on: October 1, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Searching for a sense of accomplishment One of the more frustrating things about learning a language is that it that sometimes it takes time to see the results… Posted on: September 29, 2015 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment