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THE COMPREHENSIBILIBUDDY

WELCOME TO THE COMPREHENSIBILI-BUDDY

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Welcome to The Comprehensibili-buddy, a buddy on your journey to comprehensibly and compellingly teach, learn, and ultimately grow in your language exploration. I'm Arianne Belzer-Carroll, a high school Latin teacher and novella writer in Georgia. I'm excited you're along for the ride. Contact me below with questions or requests, scroll down for the blog/teaching posts, or check out other pages for snippets of novellas, free materials, the web series Bene Narras, and digital licenses of my books.

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Teaching in a Hybrid Classroom

For the 433rd time in my life, I'm grateful I have flexible seating. I threw out my desks some several years ago, and what my classroom...

Aug 25, 20203 min read

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Real communication in a constructed environment

Last fall, I borrowed the cart of butcher paper from the library. Kids were working on their performance final, which was "draw something...

Jul 24, 20202 min read

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Some Things I Did During Shutdown That I Liked

Minute to win it games. You can still do them online. a. I videotaped myself looking like an idiot - that is, attempting some minute to...

Jul 19, 20203 min read

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The Importance of Discretion. Also, an Activity on Preferences!

My ones are learning about family. In the course of learning about family every year, I sit down and have a conversation with my kiddos....

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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The Blessing of Useless Competition

This is something the great Justin Slocum Bailey taught me: if kids can compete, and if it can be hilarious, that's a beautiful classroom...

Jul 19, 20203 min read

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A FLAG Presentation!

I presented at FLAG this year on assessment and how to assess beyond the standard multiple choice format. We talked about why we should...

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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I presented at SCOLT!

If you didn't get a chance to come by, here are my presentation materials. the PowerPoint I showed the handout that goes with it

Jul 19, 20201 min read

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Six Things That Foreign Language Teachers Need To Do More

There are a lot of things that push us to get better as language teachers, and many of them are things we forget we can do, or forget to...

May 28, 20208 min read

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Project-Based Learning As A Performance Final

At my high school, we're required to give written and spoken performance finals in addition to our objective multiple-choice finals. I'm...

May 28, 20203 min read

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On Fidget Tools

I have a small basket of fidget tools - a couple of cubes with various sides (one that clicks, one that rolls, etc), some tubes with...

May 28, 20203 min read

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Using Language Classes To Teach Other Ideas

Every year for the last six years, I've sat down with my twos and threes and asked what they want to study curricularly the following...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Designing A Unit Around Culture

Last summer, a friend of mine said something that really stuck with me. He told me that language is culture, and that we have to examine...

May 28, 20206 min read

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Why I Don't Warn Students About Tests

Last year, I decided to stop giving my students warnings about when they were going to be tested, and I'm just giving assessements...

May 28, 20202 min read

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How I Formulate a Unit

It's all well and good to know that you have a topical unit, but then you think about teaching on Monday and realize that you have no...

May 28, 20203 min read

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A Unit In My Classroom, part 3

The next week of magic class looked like this: Day 1 We re-watched each of the clips, and I began to use the vocabulary in the types of...

May 28, 20204 min read

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A Unit In My Classroom, part 2

All the stuff that we more or less pulled off in five days - and it did actually take a little longer than that, because on Friday,...

May 28, 20203 min read

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What a Unit Looks Like In My Classroom, part 1

I've been asked to post some information about a Latin III/IV unit I'm doing right now, so here's what it looks like: Last May, I asked...

May 28, 202010 min read

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A Queen of Monsters, or, on the importance of phrases

I have a small confession, which is that I once forgot that 88 in Latin is not expressed as eighty-eight but rather as two-from-ninety...

May 28, 20203 min read

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One Activity, Lots of Levels

For those of us teaching multiple levels, it can feel like a struggle to come up with distinct lesson plans for each level. That isn't...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Parent Communication

I like to communicate with the parents of my students not just when I'm concerned or am informing them of an event of some variety (test,...

May 28, 20202 min read

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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