Mar 27, 2019 | Diana Lamolinara, Engaging Education
5 Key Habits for Success in Online Classes After more than seven years of teaching live online Spanish classes, I have come up with a list of good habits that students should employ in order to optimize their chances of success in a live online environment. ...
Mar 19, 2019 | Engaging Education, Gina Duss
Exploring Language Immersion Opportunities Around Town Bonjour à tous! In my last blog, we talked about all the fun ways that technology can be used to immerse yourself in the target language without ever traveling to a foreign country. Did you know that there are...
Dec 10, 2018 | Engaging Education, Sarah Lehtinen
Mastering Annotation: Your Key to Foreign Language Success Over the past several months, there has been a wealth of information provided on how to use annotation to better your literary analysis skills. For more information on that topic, check out these blogs from...
Nov 26, 2018 | Engaging Education, Jess Woods
Reading is imperative! Joseph Addison, a 17th century English poet and playwright, said that, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” It is a truth that is universal, spanning time and space. Studying novels and longer pieces of work (like plays) is an...
Nov 12, 2018 | Becky Frank, Engaging Education
AS HOMESCHOOL PARENTS, WE HAVE A LOT OF DECISIONS TO MAKE REGARDING CURRICULUM AND CLASSES. Do I teach a subject myself, or do I outsource it? This a big question to answer. There are a number of subjects that many parents find difficult to teach. Math and science,...
Nov 5, 2018 | Diana Lamolinara, Engaging Education
Projects are one way to teach culture and language in the foreign language classroom. In my Spanish 1 class, students had to do a Spanish-speaking country wiki project, and one of the things they were asked to do was to find a few facts about the country they were...