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161: Make Your Language Classroom Warm and Welcoming with Allison Perryman

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Is your world language classroom a welcoming space for students? Would you describe it as warm and welcoming? Can it be? Should it be? Is it helpful for learning? My guest today, Allison Perryman, sure believes that it is.  Allison joins me to discuss how she makes her Spanish classroom a warm and welcoming community where students feel recognized, valued, understood and ultimately completely supported by their classmates and teacher. This surely makes it a classroom incredibly conducive to language learning.

Topics in this Episode:

  • what inspired Allison to focus on creating a warm and welcoming environment in her classroom
  • examples of how a welcoming classroom environment has positively impacted student engagement and language learning outcomes
  • the role relationships play in creating a warm classroom atmosphere, and how do you foster strong connections between students and between students and the teacher
  • specific strategies for making your classroom feel inviting and inclusive for all students
  • addressing and supporting the diverse cultural backgrounds of students to ensure everyone feels represented and valued
  • Episode 78: Seeing, Hearing & Tasting Culture with Allison Perryman

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78: Seeing, Hearing & Tasting Culture with Allison Perryman

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What is culture and how do you engage your students in cultural topics?  In this episode, we are looking at culture, but with a lens of seeing, hearing and tasting so that culture comes alive for students in the classroom.  Allison Perryman, a Spanish teacher in Virginia, joins me to talk us through how she uses the senses to engage students in the diversity of target language cultures. We also talk about why it is beneficial to honor our students’ individual lived experiences as they approach their language and culture learning.

Topics in this Episode:

  • what culture is and how culture can be an entry point for student engagement
  • why it is necessary, and ultimately incredibly beneficial, to talk about diversity in the language classroom and how can we use this as an opportunity to affirm students
  • formats for presenting and engaging students in diverse cultural experiences
  • Allison’s approach of seeing, tasting and hearing diverse cultures with students

Connect with Allison Perryman:

Work with Joshua either in person or remotely.

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Teachers want to hear from you and what you are proud of in your classroom.
Join me on the podcast.
We record conversations remotely, so you can be anywhere.

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