a journey into using comprehensible input
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Welcome!
Welcome to my blog. I am a father of two and a Kindergarten through 8th Grade Spanish teacher in Central Florida. The 2014-2015 school year was my first year using Comprehensible Instruction Methods, specifically TPRS and I have been using it ever since.
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Starting the 2023-24 School Year
This year is going to be a great one! I feel renewed and ready to tackle this year in a way that I haven’t felt in several years. I was honored to be invited to present and attend the conference and it was an incredible experience. It was unlike any other conference I’ve been to.…
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Paco Pinguino
November, 2021…My last post was in November of 2021. Every time I think about posting, the voice in the back of my head that promotes my imposter syndrome tells me that I have nothing of note to say. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to the young and naive version of myself that thought…
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A new outlook and a new curriculum
It’s been almost a year since I posted on this blog. The truth is that I’ve been scared to post something new. At this point, it’s been so long that I find it more difficult to figure out what to write after a year of absence than it was to start the blog in the…
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The Day Before Break
This time of the year can be a little bit difficult. Some teachers have given midterms and then will still have contact time with their students. Others will not be giving midterms but rather will be the class between 2 other midterms. Still others will be figuring out what to do when classes get cancelled…
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Output in my classroom
In my last post, I got off on a tangent about student output. It turns out that I have a lot of thoughts on student output in the classroom… I have been thinking about this post for a while. I haven’t been able to come up with a good angle to talk about output and…
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Novel Time!
It’s mid-November, which means my students are reading, reading, reading! Reading with my classes is one of my favorite things that I get to do as a teacher. I love to read and I love passing on that love to others. Add to that that we’re reading in another language and the students are understanding…
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Our new virtual reality: Part 2
So it turns out that our New Virtual Reality was not so short lived. We are living in a world of synchronous or asynchronous teaching (or in some cases, both!) and it is a whole new thing for all of us. And there’s another new thing for me: I will only be teaching 3rd –…
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2020 Update: Using CI in Elementary School
It’s time to revisit and reevaluate one of my first and most-viewed posts.
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Our New (and hopefully short-lived) Virtual Reality
Hello to all from my home office…Where I’ve been doing work for school for the last 2 weeks! It has been a weird and overwhelming experience. I am calling this time that we, as a profession, are mostly teaching from home our “New Virtual Reality.” It is something we are all dealing with and trying…
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