January+25

=9:10 - 9:15 - Housekeeping=


 * Set the timer!
 * Learning Logs
 * Thanks from Anny & Cherice re: responses to discussion forums
 * Update from Lynn on Oral Proficiency
 * Due Dates

=9:15 - 9:45 - Teaching Demos=

(3 people should sign up today - 10 min. total (5 min. demo, 5 min. discussion)
We are the interview panel. We are divided into 3 different groups. Each group will be thinking about one of the following questions as we watch the video clip. We will watch the 3 minute clip, and then discuss for 3 minutes.
 * Curriculum & assessment (How does this teacher organize learning for students and evaluate their understanding?)
 * Classroom management, instructional strategies, & student engagement (What do students and teachers do in this class?)
 * Philosophies of teaching and learning (What do these students and this teacher believe, fear, need, think, value, worry about?)
 * What is the relationship between students and content? Students and other students? Students and teacher? Teacher and content?

1 - Dawn Huney user:dawnmarie - that is what I will be doing too...so we will have two new ways to introduce new vocab! 2 -Je suis malade- my throat is very sore so I am planning on going next week if that's ok! user:mllegibbs 3 -Bridget- TPRS For Word 97-03

= = =9:45 - 10:30 - When a Problem Becomes a Crisis Role Plays=

=10:30 - 10:40 - Classroom Emergencies: Key Principles= = =

=10:40 - 10:50 - BREAK=

=10:50 - 11:00 - Cover Letters=

=11:00 - 11:30: Ring Around the Resume=

=11:30 - 12:00: Insights & Issues=

//Nominate new ones for this week. If nothing is nominated, we'll do a crash course in grammar.//

Could we talk about grant writing and getting funds for our classrooms?user:mllegibbs

can we talk about how we want my mentor, Kyle, to present info on planning from a textbook. would we like more of a question/answer session, lecture, discussion....whatever everyone thinks would be most beneficial (he is coming in Feb 1) user:AmandaGSpanish

Swap Shop: Just a little FYI that I posted some info re: A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Ruby K. Payne, PhD). I got to hear Dr. Payne speak yesterday on this topic and more. If you are interested in reading more, check the swap shop page for more info, or let me know! It's not a typical swap shop posting, but I think it's really valuable into. user:decortem

On the Swap Shop page I posted a rubric for a project that I assigned to my students to assess their directional location words, places around town and the conjugation of "ir." I have student-examples in class, too. user:kristynd

Ser Vs. Estar and Pret. Vs. Imperfect at the same time. I think most of us are good on P vs. I and Ser vs. Estar, but when all are put together, such as telling a story in the past when "is"/ "was" is involved.

hubo VS. había... This doesnt have to be addressed in class... but I have a question about how to differenciate the two. I have never heard hubo in conversation...although I have read it in text. For instance... if I wanted to say there was an accident. My instincts say "Había un accidente" and I would never in natural speech (or writing) say "hubo un accidente..." Am I wrong? Is there a good time to use hubo? Any insight on this would be great. opps I forgot to sign user:cartierm

Hubo emphasizes that the accident is over and done with--like in a news report. Había focuses on the ongoing nature of the past event. Think of a teenager describing something. . . and there was this accident, and all these people were gathered around, and everyone was screaming, and then people started yelling at the driver to turn off the car. ..

There are two very nice grammatical explanations (scroll down until you see the post by Elroy--excellent, and also Cracker Jack) on this language discussion forum that Cindy Kendall forwarded to me from a thread that was started by a teacher with a question identical to yours: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=53654

For the rest of you, here is the general forums page: http://forum.wordreference.com/ Note that they have forums for French, German, and many other languages too. I love wordreference!user:armst156

Keeping classes together...is it necessary? user:armst156 Does this mean planning-wise? I think so user:senorastafford (Carolina)

=Assignments due today:=


 * Resumes due
 * Nominate particular items you need help with under Insights & Issues (or on Angel)