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Just Prep during Your Prep Spanish Class Lesson Template for Daily Tech Guide

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How to create your own CI classroom using a PPT/Google Slides with links to CI activities .

Game Changer Alert! If you want to structure your class with routines and varied activities, stay in the target language and prep for each lesson during your prep and not at home, then use this PowerPoint template. Use it every day to establish routines and create an interesting class. Choose from among the 75 activity slides for your activities. Never forget something you wanted to do in class because you have a slide for it.

Save each day’s presentation “daily tech guide” in a folder with handouts and label it day 1, day 2, day 3, etc. and next year spend even less time prepping for the day’s lesson. If you have already purchased a bundle of videos or the videos included below, go here and I will send you the template.

Some of the routine videos are embedded. You can always add more by clicking on the icon on top of the slide. There are 75 suggested activities and many have links to blogs. This is a growing bundle. Follow instructions inside to join our group and share new activities that we can add to the resource. Or send me your email for monthly updated slides.

It doesn’t open in a Chromebook if you want a Google Drive™ version, click here.

After downloading, if you want to order a bundle of videos, email me and I will insert them for you and set up your custom bundle.

You should use a remote presentation device or wireless mouse so that you can stand anywhere in the room and click to the next slide.

You will need to be able to open a zipped file to find:

The PowerPoint is editable, but if teammates, coworkers or a school or a school district would like to use my resources, there is a multiple user license that is available at a reduced price.

Are you like me and wish for four things this school year?

 

13 Minutes of Instructions on how to personalize  your template.

 

If you would like to purchase the template with the videos, click here.

If  you would like to join our FB group and share new activities and slides, click here.

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

 

 

If you want to read more about class structure and transition videos, read my blog here.

If your school won’t provide you with these tools, you may consider this:

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Restorative Summer – Three Steps for 90% Target Language and 100% CI in the New School Year

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By June 15th, Facebook is popping with teachers planning on how to reach 90%TL with their level one classes.
By June 15th, Facebook is popping with teachers planning on how to reach 90%TL with their level one classes.

I wish taxpayers who begrudge our summer break could see all of the June posts popping up on Facebook  as World Language Teachers research and plan for the new school year.

Many posts ask how to make a level one class 100% comprehensible so that both teachers and students can stay in the target language.

I’ve always addressed this in pieces but it’s time to put it all three steps together as teachers recharge and envision the way they want their classes to run.

Incorporate these three steps and you will have your 90% Target Language class  . . . and superior classroom management.

  1. Make a daily tech guide – it can be in PPT, ActiveInspire, Classflow, SmartNotebook, GoogleSlides, whatever works for you.

Create a slide for each activity and use a remote presentation device or remote mouse so you can click through the slides from any spot in the room, say near the students who go off task most frequently.  Click here to download the first day and see videos of the first week to give you an idea.

Spanish First Day

ESL First Day

French First Day

Mandarin here.

My book describes it in more detail. 

Other bundles are also Spanish Lessons here..

French Lessons here.

2. Use transition videos before each slide to keep the students on task and in the target language.

See them here.   Spanish available here.

English here.

French here.

German here.

Italian here.

Latin here.

Mandarin here.

3. Use direct instruction to teach students 50 survival phrases set to music.  Include the matching posters and desk reference sheet – focusing on the student – to – student slides so that they know how to talk to one another in the target language.

 

See them here.  Available here.

French here.

Mandarin here.

 

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Spanish 1 Day 1 Lesson Script for 90% Target Language

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Spanish 1 Day 1 Free Daily Tech Guide for 90% TL and VCI class
90% Target Language Class day 1

 

How do we create a comfortable environment for our lower level Spanish classes while striving for the 90% target language goal?

Today on “Spanish Teachers in the US” a teacher  asked this heart-felt question.

For me and my first year students, the answer is visual comprehensible input. (vci)

I support everything with a visual – my daily flipchart has 60 – 100 slides of visual support. I believe that first you use direct instruction of 50 survival expressions and train the students to speak to the teacher and  also to one another in Spanish.

2020 Update – Distance Learning Day 1 Lesson 

Hybrid Day 1 Lesson

Next, you script your lessons minute by minute, embedding audio, movies, transitions, pages, worksheets, everything you use so that students understand what to do, even if they don’t understand everything you say, they get the message without using English.

While I described it in words, Toni Harris and Silvia Vazquez Paramio requested to see what this would look like.   Spot on, that is what our students are thinking while we are speaking in the target language, “Can you give us a visual?”

I’ve created a thinglink to show you the Daily Tech Guide (DTG) that I used the first day of school on September 9, 2015. If you want to use this DTG, you can download it for free from TpT. I have made about 30 or so of these available and hope to add one a day as I teach with it. Enjoy!

 

Day 1 First Day of Spanish One with 90% Target Language and 100% Comprehensible Input

Note: since writing this last year I have come up with Spanish Class Hacks to 90% TL and Classroom Management for those teachers needing a quick DTG for other levels.

I made a poster to explain it with a link.

 

How do we create a comfortable environment for our lower level Spanish classes while striving for the 90% target language goal? Visual Comprehensible Input (VCI) See what it looks like for a Spanish 1 Class on Day 1 and download it for free.
Thinglink of a Spanish One Day One 90% Target Language Class

Video Day 1 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

 

Free Download from TeacherspayTeachers        More Lessons Available           Survival Expressions – Class Decorations

 

Link to videos mentioned below!

visual lesson plan for 90 TL

 

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Compelling Transitions are Key to Creating Classroom Routines, Managing Student Behavior, and Staying in the Target Language!

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Spanish song and video "Feliz Lunes" is the perfect 90 second transition for students as they come to class on Mondays. Musical Videos make transitions seamless, improve student behavior, classroom management and maintain 90% target language usage.
Spanish song and video “Feliz Lunes” is the perfect 90 second transition for students as they come to class on Mondays. Musical Videos make transitions seamless, improve student behavior, classroom management and maintain 90% target language usage.

 

 

 

 

What if you only have 25 minutes a day to prepare for a class lesson and want to improve class routines, student behavior, classroom management, and stay in the target language?

1. Make a slide for each activity in the day’s lesson.

2. Insert one of my brief 50+ transition videos before the slide and train your students to watch the video in Spanish. Soon they are imitating the voice over or else singing the song. Do this every  day and when you are observed by your administrators they will note your seamless transitions.

3. Buy a remote presentation device or wireless mouse and click to the next slide from any part of the room so you can stand close to students who struggle to behave.

Let’s start with Mondays. Students are coming into your room and an engaging, 90 second video called “Feliz Lunes” nudges them to start thinking in and using Spanish. As the bell rings, click to your slide with your pre-class and start your greetings and attendance taking. Don’t be surprised if the students are still singing it under their breath.

How to purchase “Feliz Lunes”

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