Preaching To Acquire

Kaitlin shares her recent experiences with storyasking that provided students with a voice without the chaos that this activity can sometimes bring! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares some reflections on using Star of the Day/Special Person Interviews in her classes and some changes she's making to it this year to improve her students' experiences with it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares about a fun tradition she developed in her classroom during COVID that has continued to live on. She shares the quotes and stories behind them from the '22-'23 school year. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares a happy story about some of her most challenging classes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares some updates. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares about the 3 new resources being released during Wooly Week and more details about the lessons plans that were written for them. She also shares what her plans are to complete the activities with her different classes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin talks about her experience using ChatGPT to try to generate different content in Spanish for her classes. She gives tips to helped her get information at an appropriate language level and also shares how it can give your creativity muscles a much needed break. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin rambles about her struggles engaging students in class since her usual activities don't seem to be working the same way. She also shares some things that have worked to engage these students and ends with a plea for help and ideas! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares about a fun collaborative writing activity that she learned from Carrie Toth who learned it from Nelly Hughes. Students are challenged to write as much as possible so they can build the tallest tower. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares a letter she received from a former student this morning and good it encourages her to keep teaching. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares her reflections on how sometimes activities we can do in the classroom can serve a purpose beyond driving aquisition for our students. Don't forget to check out this year's FREE World Language Teacher Summit by registering here. (linktr.ee/preachingtoacquire) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares her (very tentative) plans for the first week of classes! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares her honest feelings about heading back to school this year --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares a personal update. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares a few different ways she has been using parallel texts to extend input and provide repetition to her students while giving them scaffolded opportunities to be creative and silly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares how she has used Smash Doodles this year as a way for students to respond to different books by analyzing characters and events in an artistic way. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Running dictation is a fun, active, and collaborative way for students to work with a text! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares in depth about some of her first products that are posted in her Teachers Pay Teachers Store. Check out the free download and listed products! The store is called Preaching to Acquire. Thanks for your support!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains the fun twist that she added to her 8th grade students' story book projects. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how to play this fun collaborative activity in your classes to review a story. Thanks to Señora Chase's blog post and La Maestra Loca's blog post about this awesome game! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin talks you through her 4 year spiral curriculum map using the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework. This episode focuses on Cycle 1 Phases 3 and 4, which are all about describing people inside and out in the past and present. You can see her work in progress curriculum map here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares some different ways that she is extending and recycling content in order to save her sanity and prevent too much burn out. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin talks you through her 4 year spiral curriculum map using the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework. This episode focuses on Cycle 1 Phase 2, which is all about describing preferences (likes/dislikes. You can see her work in progress curriculum map here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin talks you through her 4 year spiral curriculum map using the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework. This episode focuses on Cycle 1 Phase 1, which is all about describing settings. You can see her work in progress curriculum map here. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares her feelings about the just recent school shooting. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin has struggled this year with one of her classes that needs extra support. In this episode, she details how she is backwards planning from assessments and activities to break things down into small pieces to ensure understanding and success. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin had her homeroom class write thank you cards to other people in the school including teachers and classmates. Listen as she reads some of them to you, and know that you're students are thankful for you, too! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares her recent experience teaching a unit to her 6th grade with an emphasis on reading as input instead of listening and how it was successful! It also kept the classroom community a positive place for all students to acquire language. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares about how she approaches teaching a class novel in her classes and how she uses them as a springboard for content and cultural connections. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains what anchor charts are and how to use them in the world language classroom. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin gets real about how school is going. She shares a bunch of different ways to take a "break" in your classes for your well-being. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how to use class and community surveys in your classes for input and how to personalize them in order to go beyond the original questions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin gives you 4 tips (and a whole lot of passion) to create assessments that are simple, equitable, and aligned to the standards. This podcast episode pairs with her free presentation for the World Language Teacher Summit that will be live for 48 hours on October 21st, 2021. Click here to register FREE or visit linktr.ee/preachingtoacquire --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how students can create their own characters and 2 options for ways to use these characters once they're made. One option relies more on output and one more on input. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin talks you through the class character creation process for making a one word image. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares different strategies for student application and assessment as well as the mindset and perspective she has when looking at student work from this portion of class. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains different strategies for shared reading. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains a few different strategies for shared writing, including ways to differentiate for more advanced learners. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares about the quick but powerful part of the framework known as scaffolded oral review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how guided oral input is the heart of the lesson, how to support comprehension, and why keeping it short is the way to go. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares 5 different ways to get students' eyes on text during reading workshop. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin is breaking down all 7 parts of the daily lesson framework. Today is about part 1: norming the class. It is usually 5 minutes or less of Kaitlin's lessons. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how she would use the writing continuua that are a part of the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework to help students set individual writing goals and feel empowered in their writing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Inspired by Bryce Hedstrom and Annabelle Williamson, Kaitlin shares the point system she uses in her classroom to motivate students to make good choices and use the target language. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

The purpose of this activity is for students to work collaboratively together to create sentences using familiar words that have been used in the guided oral input/shared writing texts before. Students try to make as many sentences as possible using as many words as possible. And there are even blank cards for students to write their own extra words on to level up their sentences. This will help build their confidence before their writing assessment so they can see how much they already can do! Click here to see Kaitlin's blog post on this activity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Looking for a more fun way to teach a boat load of vocabulary so your students have been exposed to what they "needed to learn" before going to the next teacher that uses the textbook? The Word Off is a great activity to do with them. You could also do this with any class where you create a fun vocab list based on class interest and have a little competition. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin breaks down how she prepares her students to be in a more traditional Spanish 2 class that uses a textbook with a heavy focus on grammar and vocabulary. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how to do the reading activity called Volleyball Translation/Reading (Ping pong reading). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin explains how to do the strategy called reading from the back of the room. This world be used during the shared reading part of the daily framework. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin shares about the 3 main types of assessment in the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework: daily formative assessment, end of phase checkpoint assessments, and end of cycle summative assessments. Here is the summative assessment reflection sheet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support

Kaitlin breaks down how you can use the kid grid strategy as a scaffolded oral review OR guided oral input strategy. She shares how she would organize her spreadsheets for this and some extensions for once you've gathered all of the information on the grid! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/preachingtoacquire/support