by Kathryn @ Kosmik Teaching | Oct 19, 2022 | Comprehensible Input, Teaching
Hey profe, maybe you’ve heard the term “pop-up grammar” thrown around, or perhaps you’re looking to get away from a structured grammar approach in your Spanish class. Straightforward grammar lessons are *kind of* boring (at least for me and my students).Pop-up...
by Kathryn @ Kosmik Teaching | Sep 5, 2022 | Back to School, Community, Teaching
Let’s face it: it’s HARD to invest students in Spanish class. We’re competing for students’ attention and we just can’t keep up sometimes. They’ve got phones, friends, sports, video games, and their lives are moving a thousand miles a minute. It can be hard to...
by Kathryn @ Kosmik Teaching | Jul 29, 2022 | Comprehensible Input, Reading, Teaching
I saw a recent post in a Facebook group about using Comprehensible Input in a high school classroom, and students taking it seriously. When I first started using Comprehensible Input (CI), I was working at a college prep high school. This was one of those no-nonsense...
by Kathryn @ Kosmik Teaching | Jun 29, 2022 | Spanish 2, Teaching
As I said in my post about Spanish one, Sometimes we get lucky and our school offers us a curriculum, and sometimes we create the curriculum ourselves. I prefer to create my own curriculum because it gives me more flexibility, opportunities to teach my students what...
by Kathryn @ Kosmik Teaching | Jun 29, 2022 | Back to School, Planning, Review, Teaching
When it comes to planning your Spanish 1 class, sometimes you have a textbook and sometimes you have nothing. In my case, I have usually had to develop my own materials. No time to read? Get my free Spanish 1 curriculum map right here. Developing your own materials...
