Welcome back! Have you decided that flexible seating in middle-school is for you? If so, awesome! I’m SO excited for you. If you missed Part 1 of the Blog Series, Flexible Seating in Middle-School, make sure you check it out first. In Part 1, I go over the 5 steps to getting started with flexible …
Do you teach in your own classroom? Do you have the freedom to organize your classroom the way you want? If so, I highly recommend implementing flexible seating into your space! Flexible seating in middle-school is the way to go! In this post (a break from my regular French Immersion teacher programming), I will give …
Teaching grammar is definitely My Thing. I love it, I’m good at it, and I can make it fun! This is definitely my niche and where I put most of my energy when it comes to professional development and resource creation. I have spent years learning how to teach French grammar and developing my grammar …
Teaching story writing is something that so many of us do in our classrooms but are we teaching it in the most effective way? Are we teaching story writing explicitly or are we simply assigning it? I have been guilty of simply assigning story writing which is what led to this blog post and me …
Who doesn’t love a movie day?! I know I do! But how do we know what movies for French immersion students are appropriate for our kiddos? We don’t have time to pre-watch 5 movies to then pick the best one. Or at least I don’t… ain’t nobody got time for that! I have compiled a …
If you have been following the series of articles about assessing French language competencies then you have made it all the way to the last one! And I’m not going to lie, this is my favourite one! I love teaching French grammar! I honestly don’t know why because as a student French grammar was one …
Did you know that I teach 130 students French language arts? That means that every time I want to assess French writing I have 130 assignments to grade. Yep… That’s a lot. My only way of staying sane is by asking students to do small pieces of writing. Yes, of course, there’s always a time …
As a student learning French, how many different ways was your French reading assessed? I don’t know about you but the only way I can remember my teachers assessing French reading comprehension is with individual novel studies and French reading comprehension texts with multiple choice questions. I’m not here to say that those are bad …
Why is it that as French teachers, listening and speaking are the hardest competences to assess when teaching French? Assessing French listening comprehension and speaking ability is so difficult, especially as our class sizes continue to grow. I don’t know about you, but I have classes of 35 Gr 7 students! And 39 Gr 9 …
Étant prof de français, il faut que j’évalue les quatre compétences de la langue. Pour moi, les quatre compétences de la langue sont l’écriture, la lecture, la production orale et la compréhension orale. Quand j’ai demandé aux profs quelle compétence était la plus difficile à évaluer, la majorité des profs m’ont dit qu’évaluer la production …
