Todoele - Enseñanza y aprendizaje del español

World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the World. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the 21 languages most spoken by UK children. 

If teachers are to transition to the kind of blended learning that has been found to work best for today’s kids, we need trust, time, and trained mentors to work out what what we need to do.

Back in 1978 the psychologist Melissa Bowerman observed her 13 month old daughter, who was starting to talk. (Psychologists do a lot of this. In fact, I sometimes wonder if that’s the main reason t...

Flamenco, Sanfermines, guitarras españolas... tangos y mariachis. El capítulo que esta semana se ha emitido en Estados Unidos de Cómo conocí a vuestra madre ha hecho un guiño a España.

This year, I admitted a hard truth to myself. I wasn't having my students write enough. In an attempt to follow Kelly Gallagher’s advice that students should write more than we can assess, I decided

We spend so much time in education trying to make things better. Better policies. Better technology. Better standards. Better curriculum. Better instruction. Better assessment. Better…

If you could learn about anything, what would you choose to learn? If you gave this freedom to your students, what would they choose? Last fall, Patti Grayson shared with a few friends and me her “Free To Learn” concept. This past week, I have mentioned her “Free to Learn” approach to teaching and learning a few times and it has caused some fellow educators to stop mid-sentence, mid-thought and say…huh?

Due to Khan Academy's popularity, the idea of the flipped classroom has gained press and credibility within education circles. Briefly, the Flipped Classroom as described by Jonathan Martin is: Fli...

De idioma e igualdad va esta entrada con diferentes propuestas.

Conjunto de post que tratan de explicar de una forma sencilla y breve diversos conceptos relacionados con el aprendizaje y la innovación. Adaptabilidad de la formación on-line. Aprendizaje - Servic...

Interactive tools and multimedia content are prompting teachers to take on more of a coaching or guiding role in the classroom.

This visualization details some wonderful examples of what the future of online language learning will look like.

How is blended learning impacting teacher professional development?

There's a new MOOC on the block and it's getting ready to help you learn Spanish and perhaps another language in the future.

Hace un par de años publiqué una entrada sobre Hablamos español(1971-72), el “curso de español para alemanes”, que Els Joglars grabó con la TV alemana NDR (Hamburgo). En las TV públicas regionales de la época en Alemania había una programación minoritaria de tipo cultural. Los cursos de diferentes materias se emitían por la mañana.

Como seguramente ya sabes, en España se usan muchísimo los tacos o palabrotas, o sea, las palabras groseras, malsonantes, que no se pueden decir en todas las situaciones. Las que más usamos son "coño" y "joder". Tanto, que en Chile a los españoles nos llaman "los coños".

Practomime.com By Nathan Maton What can possibly get kids excited to learn a dead language? This was the challenge for Latin teacher Kevin Ballestri

I just showed my first movie ever in class this year! I needed to give a quiet class something to talk about because they weren't excited to talk about each other or themselves. Plus, I wanted them...

Siempre que puedo y me gusta mucho un vídeo intento usarlo de todas las formas posibles y por qué no, en diferentes niveles. Es lo que ha pasado con este vídeo de Pixar con el que trabajé con los estudiantes de B2 vocabulario y frases coloquiales.

Ahora les toca a mis estudiantes de A2. En este caso, trabajamos los pasados por separado, primero elimperfecto y luego el pretérito

If you're looking to harness the power of education technology, you should probably know what it means to be a digital teacher in a modern classroom.

Creo que han pasado más de dos años desde mi última entrada en este blog. Ha sido un periodo de tiempo prolongado sin escribir en este espacio ni una sola línea (mis energías se han ido centrando e...