General Conferring Made Simple: Assessing Reading Skills with Extempore Time. Time is a teacher’s most precious commodity. We literally never have enough of it… 2019-08-14
General A World Language Activity for Visual Learners See it, Say it! Many learners we teach rely on visuals to help them interpret… 2019-07-29
General Extempore at the University of Wisconsin’s Collaborative Language Program Workshop The Collaborative Language Program In May, Extempore was invited to present at a workshop organized… 2019-07-22
General, Guest Post A Student-Led Discussion Activity for the World Language Classroom Triangle Talk/Triángulo de Tertulia This is not only a great speaking activity for… GradingScaffolding+ 1 2019-07-17
General, Guest Post Keeping Students in the Target Language [Three Classroom Activities] Three Activities and Strategies to keep language students in the target language In this blog… 2019-06-27
General All-In-One Activity for the World Language Classroom: Yes. No. Maybe? One Activity: All-in-one and done? Could there be such a thing? Sometimes being a world… 2019-05-23
General How to Prepare Pre-AP Language Students [An Easy Guide] Preparing students for an AP language class before they take AP If you teach AP,… 2019-04-20
General Extempore Featured in the Language Educator's Tech Watch The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' publication The Language Educator is a… 2019-02-14
General 5 Signs You're Ready for New Technology in the Language Classroom As a teacher myself, I'll start this one off with a short story about an… 2019-01-17
General Extempore Parent Guide: My Kid Is Using What? Extempore is a speaking practice app that provides an oral language assessment tool for teachers… 2019-01-09
General 3 Tips for Getting Students Excited About Extempore The atmosphere of a language class can be heavily influenced by how excited the students… 2018-12-27
General My students are stressed when doing an oral exam on Extempore. What can I do? We hear this question sometimes: you are using Extempore as a language lab alternative, assigning… 2018-12-23