by Kathryn @ Kosmik Teaching | Dec 8, 2022 | Teaching
When it comes to error correction, I’ve grown a lot. I used to correct ALL of my students’ errors, profe. But now I know better. I let my students correct their own mistakes, set goals with this worksheet, and I focus on what really matters:...
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...
