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7 Sanity Savers for Spanish Teachers Needing to Just Prep During Their Prep

August 7, 2022 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

1. Use a daily tech guide (slideshow) – my version will be sent in the 5 step challenge below.  

             Each day copy and paste your structure and change out the activities – at the end of the year you will have 180 slide shows and be set up for next year.  Insert Spanish transition videos and your students will stay on task and in the target language.

2. Redefine teaching bell – to – bell for Spanish 1 and Spanish 2.

             Each period is a complete entity – you and the students walk out with whatever needs to be scored being scored – except for writing assessments. You need to structure  your class so that there is time for grading for completion and in-class work and quickly recording the grades.

            In the daily tech guide is a musical slide for taking attendance.  Insert attendance into the school’s program in the moment. We use Skyward and I take attendance on my phone with the students helping me with “X no está” as they learn it from the transition videos.

          Whatever work the students are doing, show the answers on the board, and circulate for corrections.  They take a picture of it with their chrome books and submit it on the first slide of the day’s work. (On the other slides are there listening and reading activities.)  I teach from one monitor and use the second monitor to pull up their work and check for completion during little moments – while the are listening to an audio, listening to the text’s grammar videos, working with their partners, etc.  If their work has multiple slides, I can glance at them all at once rather than rolling through each slide. Some teachers have the last 5 minutes of class be practicing on Quizizz while they record and verify with students who didn’t hand in work.  They can be receiving comprehensible input from vocabulary and listening activities without  you physically doing it, and that is ok.

                For Google Classroom, I score them and can record them in Skyward.  Then I go back and remove the due date.  This way parents do not receive messages about incomplete work.  In Google, they only receive messages about work with a due date.  Granted, in Skyward it is recorded and determines their final grade, but parents seem to focus on items that crop up in their reminder list.  This had virtually eliminated students goofing off in class, not doing the work, and then their parents demanding that they re-do for a better grade.  Your goal is to start looking at moments when you could be checking and recording grades, while students are practicing and listening and watching.

3. In all of your info home refer to your prep time as “office hours” as in I will return phone calls and emails during my office hours 10:10 – 10:55.  

4. Prepare for things to go wrong with preparing now your emergency activities that can be done without internet or electricity..  

            In the 5 day challenge you will receive a cultural ‘find the difference’ sheet that can be pulled out and enjoyed at a moment’s notice. The collection is here.

 5. Schedule a monthly  independent day for you to take a mental health day – in or out of school (even with a non-Spanish speaking substitute.) 

             Try one from this collection.

6. If your school has weather-related or covid-related asynch days from home, prepare those lessons now.

             Here is my collection. 

7. Which holidays must you prepare a lesson to acknowledge?  Make those lessons now.  Here is mine on Dr. MLKing, Jr.

 

Summer is so precious.

Last year was so insane.  Take one hour to learn 7 Sanity Savers for this upcoming year and enjoy the freebies!  I updated to 7 but the video was made last year when I had 5 steps.  No, I am not spending time making another video, I am going to do more self-care.  We can all live with imperfections!

5 STEP CHALLENGE

 

 

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Check-off List for Substitute Teacher (s) during Substitute Shortages

January 2, 2022 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

Spanish Teachers Preparing for Substitute during Covid

During our nationwide substitute-teacher shortage, we can no longer count on one person to cover  all of our classes.

After giving two months notice for a medical appointment, I left my usual sub letter and plans only to return to no notes and no names as to who covered which class.

To avoid future aggravation,  I created this additional form that you can download here.

If you need asynchronous Spanish lessons so that students can work independently with substitutes that don’t know Spanish, please consider my cultural lessons below.

Cultural Activities:

 

Colombia Hidden Pictures.mp4 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

 

 

We have eight so far with four more in progress.

 

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Spanish Teacher Summer Prep to “Just Prep During Your Prep” during the New School Year

June 29, 2021 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

Summer is so precious.

Last year was so insane.  Take one hour to learn 5 Sanity Savers for this upcoming year and enjoy the freebies!

5 STEP CHALLENGE

 

 

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Spanish Teacher Sanity Savers – Engaging Spanish Asynchronous Cultural Lessons for Substitutes, Extra Credit, or for You.

May 18, 2021 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

 

If one more well-intentioned person tells me to take care of myself this school year while adding on more responsibilities that prevent me from taking care of myself, I may not react with my filter in place!   

Do you feel the same way?

Luckily I was talking to the Venezuelans that I support and these innovative souls helped me to create my three mandatory asynch  sub lessons that I need for my virtual and concurrent face-to-face students.

After my students did the first one, and raved about it being one of their better days with a sub, and, my being human, I thought, “these are great why waste them on a sub?”

So we created three more and will continue to add to them. They are available individually or as a group.

At their own pace with Google Slides,  students  learn about nine cultural icons through YouTube videos, answer questions, and at the end, search the hidden picture for the icons. 

Students find this a great break from online games and especially love the food segments. 

Treat yourself to the freedom of knowing you have a no-prep lesson for any emergency.  The only thing you have to decide is if you will include the answers to the hidden pictures or save them for later.  See videos below of each country. 

Update: These can also be used for extra credit for students.

 

 

 

 

If you just need an emergency activity, read the next post about “Encuentra las diferencias” for that emergency activity when things fall apart.

 

 

 

 

All net proceeds help three Venezuelan families – meet them in the video below as they open three boxes I sent to them.

 

 

 

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Spanish Class Cultural Fix for Wacky Schedule Days, Fast Finishers, and Emergency Spanish Back-Up Activities

May 18, 2021 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

 

My classroom has two  kinds of fast-finishers: those whose who just need something for a few, variable amount of  minutes and those who need something for a good ten to fifteen minutes. 

For a few minutes, students love trying to guess the word. I usually post 3 and it keeps them engaged – each one takes just a few minutes so they can quickly rejoin the class.  If the class needs more time, they can do another one.  Up to 450 from Spanish 1 are available here.

Engaging Spanish Culture “Find the Differences” drawings are life-savers for when the activities you planned for class take less time – and you are being observed!  Either print out a set or set-it up for your online classes and quickly access them seamlessly.

Students find them engaging and they just may give you that break you need to help students catch up or to write that referral.

Keep them in reserve for when students return early from an assembly or a fire drill takes up most of the period and you need a short engaging activity in order  to save your planned lesson for the next day.  You’ll be glad you did.

Although they come in groups of  two, I do use the  collection of over 20 with my fast finishers because these puzzles build resilience – one of the major keys to success, according to research that I trust. 

Fast finishers enjoy these – even those who tend to quickly go back to their video games –  are intrigued.

I also sprinkle them into spice up our bellwork.

Each one has 10 differences and the topics include:

CARNAVAL EN PUERTO RICO

CASTELL DE CATALUÑA

CHILE TELESCOPIO

EL AÑO NUEVO

EL AÑO NUEVO MALETA

EL DÍA DE LOS INOCENTES

EL DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS GUATEMALA

EL DÍA DEL NIÑO

EL DÍA DEL TRABAJADOR

EL FESTIVAL DE GUELAGUETZA

EL TIÓ NADAL

HACER HALLACAS

LA INDEPENDENCIA DE CHILE – BAILE LA CUECA

LA INDEPENDENCIA DE CHILE – COMIDA

LA INDEPENDENCIA DE MÉXICO

LA INDPENDENCIA DE CARTEGENA

LA QUINCEAÑERA

LA TOMATINA

LAS ALFOMBRAS DE GUATEMALA

LAS FALLAS

LAS MONARCAS

LOS TRES REYES

LOS VOLADORES DE PAPANTLA

PARAGUAY BAILE DE LAS BOTELLAS

PRIMER DÍA DE COLE

SAN FERMÍN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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