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SHARING MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND IDEAS ON TEACHING LANGUAGES IN A COMPREHENSIBLE, ENGAGING, CULTURALLY RELEVANT WAY.

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Virtually Ending our School Year

by Noemí Rodríguez | May 9, 2020

Last week, New Jersey's Governor Murphy announced that we would not return to our schools due to health safety concerns with COVID-19 continuing to take the lives of our loved ones across the state, the nation & around the world. It was a sad day to receive this...

Virtual Learning: Here we go!

by Noemí Rodríguez | Mar 8, 2020

For some time, we have been amidst a culture where learning from home is becoming more common. While I appreciate learning from the comfort of my own home, the socialization piece and interaction that we get with actually connecting in person can never truly be...

NADFSL & ACTFL 2019 Reflections

by Noemí Rodríguez | Dec 2, 2019

It has been a whole week since I attended both NADSFL & ACTFL conferences in Washington, DC and what a great experience it was! I spent time with supervisory colleagues, met some Twitter pals in person and attended fantastic workshops! This year, I opted to follow...

Have you Clip Chatted yet?

by Noemí Rodríguez | Feb 20, 2019

My world language friends, it is TIME to try the technique: Clip Chat (MovieTalk) if you haven't yet! Last week, I had the opportunity to work with teachers from Southern New Jersey, as approximately sixty World Language teachers came together on a Friday. The fact...

Culture is my Daily Catalyst!

by Noemí Rodríguez | Jan 16, 2019

A few months ago I had the opportunity to teach Spanish III and we began with the unit, "Stories of the Past, Dreams of the Future". It was wonderful to return to the classroom and below I share my journey with this common Level III unit. The unit's communicative...

10th grader For The Day

by Noemí Rodríguez | Jan 31, 2017

My Monday began in a new fashion, where I found myself curious about how my day would be. There were no meetings to attend, lesson plans to review or phone calls to make. Today was new and quite different because I was going to school to shadow a 10th grade student...