For New Teachers In Ontario
I often get asked by my friends that are graduating teacher’s college: “What do I do now?” And I feel for them, because I also felt lost and unprepared when I began my journey into teaching. I try to...
View ArticleUsing Facebook To Communicate with Students & Parents
Interesting article that was posted ages ago on FreeTechforTeachers.com is one where a teacher talks about how he uses Facebook to communicate with students and their parents. His reasoning being that...
View ArticleWhat Begins with ‘A’?
I’ve been scouring blogs all morning, trying to find some fun ideas for the school year – especially the young ones. I have found that sometimes, when I walk into a classroom and depend on finding a...
View ArticleClass Dojo
ClassDojo (Photo credit: daibarnes) One week into ClassDojo, and I’m psyched! I feel like it has completely revitalized my classroom. Because of the more hands-on with the iPad, I’m able to reward...
View ArticleEngaging Students While Learning a Second Language
This is the task that I had given to myself when I decided that working as a French as a second language teacher was my career direction. I’ve learned many things along the way. My first year, I worked...
View ArticleQui suis-je?
http://en.akinator.com (Photo credit: mazita.) After spending a whole day playing with my classes on Akinator, I need to share it. We had such a great time, and it was an amazing way to practice our...
View ArticlePodcasting
I’m going to be trying to podcast the lessons that we learn in class, so that any students that may need help with proper pronunciation of the vocabulary words that we have been learning in class is...
View ArticleHow To Use ClassDojo In Core French
If you’ve been reading my blog for a little bit, you know that I raved about how much ClassDojo did for my classroom last year. It made such an amazing difference in my classroom that my entire view on...
View ArticleA Bunch of Picassos
My students really enjoyed the project (click here to see the concept). I think that they did a really wonderful job, and just wanted to brag a little bit about how my classroom is full of little...
View ArticleOur Respectful Robots
In the Grade 4 Core French class, we spent much of the last semester speaking about respect and courtesy, as well as developing language associated with that. The final project for the students...
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