Archive for March, 2017
The Best Part of Flipping My Classroom Posted by Transparent Language on Mar 6, 2017 in For Educators
Guest Post by Heather Witten, a Spanish teacher at Elizabeth High School in Colorado, where she has been on the CCFLT (Colorado Congress of Foreign Language) Board for the last 4 years. She has been flipping her Spanish class for the last 7 years and has written a chapter in the book “Flipping 2.0” describing…
Can Tech Enable Schools to Start Offering Languages Earlier? Posted by Transparent Language on Mar 1, 2017 in Archived Posts
Educators and researchers agree: children should start learning languages as early as possible. Children Are Uniquely Suited to Learn Languages Recent research indicates that our “capacity to learn a language diminishes gradually” over time. At younger ages, children’s brains are more open to new sounds and patterns: “Simply, the younger the learner, the better they…