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!

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.

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.

Kaitlin shares a happy story about some of her most challenging classes.

Kaitlin shares some updates.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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)

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.

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.

Running dictation is a fun, active, and collaborative way for students to work with a text!

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!!

Kaitlin explains the fun twist that she added to her 8th grade students' story book projects.

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!

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.

Kaitlin shares some different ways that she is extending and recycling content in order to save her sanity and prevent too much burn out.

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 .

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 .

Kaitlin shares her feelings about the just recent school shooting.

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.

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!

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.

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.