Infographs

After reading this article in the New York Times about using infographs as teaching tools I decided to go in search of my own infographs en español for use in the classroom. This search led me to a wonderful collection by Alfredo Vela. It's a terrific source for infographs on just about everything ranging from humor to global warming. I also wanted to see how I could incorporate these into use for the classroom. So, using the Comprehensible Classroom's Common Core for State Standards Guide for developing reading comprehension questions, I tried my hand at developing some questions for an infograph describing illiteracy rates in Mexico.

Alfabetización en México

If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve the questions or any ideas for using infographs in general, I would love to hear them!

First Post of New Blog!

Inspired by the number of teacher bloggers out there I have decided, at the very end of the year, to join in their ranks. I am a middle school Spanish teacher with a passion for curriculum writing and professional development. Last year I was introduced to the theory of Comprehensible Input and the TPRS methodology for teaching languages and it completely changed the way I thought about teaching. Since then, I attended the iFTL conference in San Diego and I've spent whole weeks online exploring blogs and websites looking for resources and ideas. I would like to use this space to share some of those resources I've found, discuss particular failures and successes in the classroom and to reflect on my teaching, specifically regarding CI and TPRS.