Smarter Storyasking
Kaitlin shares her recent experiences with storyasking that provided students with a voice without the chaos that this activity can sometimes bring!
Apr 26, 2024•11 min
Preaching To Acquire
I'm here preaching to help your students acquire languages! My goal is to inform, transform, inspire, and entertain you in efficient and effective episodes! Something you want to hear? Let me know!
Last refreshed: ⓘ
Follow this podcast in the Metacast mobile app to refresh it and see new episodes.
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more
Episodes
Changes to Star of the Day
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.
Aug 20, 2023•11 min
The Quote Board
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.
Jul 07, 2023•13 min
A Win is a Win
Kaitlin shares a happy story about some of her most challenging classes.
Apr 28, 2023•15 min
Farewell For Now ❤️
Kaitlin shares some updates.
Apr 04, 2023•7 min
Preparing for Wooly Week 2023!
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.
Feb 23, 2023•11 min
Using ChatGPT/AI to Generate Content For Your 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.
Jan 14, 2023•15 min
A Different Kind of Engagement?
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!
Nov 30, 2022•18 min
29. What? How?: Tower of Knowledge (La Torre de Saber)
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.
Oct 05, 2022•12 min
Going Beyond Language Acquisition
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)
Sep 29, 2022•15 min
28. What? How?: Parallel Texts
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.
May 22, 2022•16 min
27. What? How?: Smash Doodles
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.
May 19, 2022•12 min
26. What? How?: Running Dictation
Running dictation is a fun, active, and collaborative way for students to work with a text!
Apr 26, 2022•18 min
An Exciting Announcement! I Opened a Teachers Pay Teachers Store!
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!!
Apr 20, 2022•7 min
A Twist on Classroom Library Story Projects
Kaitlin explains the fun twist that she added to her 8th grade students' story book projects.
Apr 12, 2022•15 min
25. What? How?: Reverse (Backwards) Charades
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!
Mar 17, 2022•10 min
4 Year Curriculum Map Part 3: Cycle 1 Phases 3 & 4 (Describing People Inside & Out and Past & Present)
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.
Jan 19, 2022•29 min
Extend, Extend, Extend!
Kaitlin shares some different ways that she is extending and recycling content in order to save her sanity and prevent too much burn out.
Jan 18, 2022•15 min
4 Year Curriculum Map Part 2: Cycle 1 Phase 2 (Describing Preferences)
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 .
Dec 14, 2021•8 min
4 Year Curriculum Map Part 1: Cycle 1 Phase 1 (Describing Settings)
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 .
Dec 08, 2021•11 min
💔
Kaitlin shares her feelings about the just recent school shooting.
Dec 01, 2021•7 min
Backwards Planning & Breaking Lessons into Small Pieces
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.
Nov 27, 2021•18 min
Happy Thanksgiving (students' thank you messages)
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!
Nov 19, 2021•9 min
Input is Input
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.
Nov 10, 2021•16 min
Teaching a Class Novel The Fast Way
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.
Oct 16, 2021•10 min
24. What? How?: Anchor Charts
Kaitlin explains what anchor charts are and how to use them in the world language classroom.
Oct 12, 2021•25 min
Give Yourself A Break
Kaitlin gets real about how school is going. She shares a bunch of different ways to take a "break" in your classes for your well-being.
Oct 06, 2021•13 min
23. What? How?: Class and Community Surveys
Kaitlin explains how to use class and community surveys in your classes for input and how to personalize them in order to go beyond the original questions.
Oct 03, 2021•11 min
Creating Assessments for Student Success
Kaitlin gives you 4 tips (and a whole lot of passion) to create assessments that are simple, equitable, and aligned to the standards. This podcast episode pairs with her free presentation for the World Language Teacher Summit that will be live for 48 hours on October 21st, 2021. Click here to register FREE or visit linktr.ee/preachingtoacquire
Oct 02, 2021•29 min
22. What? How?: Individually Created Characters (Invisibles)
Kaitlin explains how students can create their own characters and 2 options for ways to use these characters once they're made. One option relies more on output and one more on input.
Sep 29, 2021•15 min
Hosted on Spotify for Creators (Anchor)
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android