Teaching La Vida Loca

By Annabelle

A podcast for World Language Teachers seeking inspiration, unapologetic authenticity, and guidance in centering joy and facilitating language acquisition for the people who matter most, our students!... more

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The podcast currently has 100 episodes available.

Teaching La Vida Loca episodes:

May 21, 2024 S2: E11- Embracing Our Minds and Our ADHD Superpowers!
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I am so grateful for this woman and this important conversation! Bertha Delgadillo joins me for this episode and together we share our journeys with our late in life diagnosis of ADHD and how we’re working to understand our Brains and unleash our superpowers! We hope to see you at our session at ACTFL this year in Philadelphia!
The following are the various links mentioned in this episode!
Get on Bertha’s email list!
XOXO, Your Tough Love Coach Podcast
I have ADHD Podcast
Dr. Hallowell
ADHD 2.0
Futureadhd.com
ACTFL 2024
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39min
May 14, 2024 S2: E10- Brief Moving Meditations with Kristen Wolf
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What a JOY it was to interview Kristen about her Brief Moving Meditations! I hope you LOVE this episode and you enjoy incorporating some of these ideas into your classroom with your students!

Here are the various links mentioned in this episode:
My Guided Breathing Brain Break Resource
Kristen's Qi Gong Teacher on YouTube
The Gorilla/ Immune Boost breath
Kristen's template for the Humming bee breath to use with students!
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34min
May 07, 2024 S2: E9- 5 Novel Brain Breaks for YOU and your students!
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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to YOU! Thank you so much for listening and supporting my podcast! Here's 5 novel Brain Breaks for you to try out this week with your students! I hope they bring ALL of you LOTS of JOY!

These are the various links mentioned in this episode:
35 Brain Break Blogs on my website
Episode 3- Student Buy In
Country Class Names for Community Building
Shape Up Inspiration from Iamjoshuawoodard
Example ASMR video
Recent reviews of the podcast! Add yours!

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20min
April 29, 2024 S2:E8 - Spread JOY and Teach Gratitude!
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There's nothing like the feeling of spreading JOY and teaching gratitude! I can't wait to hear how these ideas bring YOU, your students, and the teachers in your building some joy this week, next week, and for years to come! Love, Annabelle

Blog for Student Driven Word Clouds
Instagram video of word clouds
YouTube video how to of Word Art.com
Recent reviews of the podcast! Add yours!
Face-off Brain Break Blog and YouTube video to see it in action!
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22min
April 11, 2024 S2: E7 - NO prep strategies! YAY!
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Get ready, in this episode, I'm giving you three, no-prep strategies to use in your classes for when you come into school and literally, barely have the energy to teach. No prep, like zero prep! Get excited, and listen now!

Links & Resources

The Comprehensible Classroom
Collaborative Free-Writes
S2 Episode 6: The POWER of Dopamine! with Jess Psaros
S1 Episode 4: 3 Low to NO prep Games for the World Language Classroom!

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22min
March 21, 2024 S2: E6- The POWER of Dopamine! with Jess Psaros
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A very special guest is joining me to talk about the importance of dopamine in our world language classes. You don't want to miss this conversation with Jess Psaros!

Links

TPR: My Gestures Blog
Jess' Document on Educational Implications for the Middle School Classroom based on Adolescent Brain Development
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54min
March 12, 2024 S2: E5- How comprehensible ARE you!?
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For real though!? Do you know!? Do you ask them!? Try the strategies I outline in THIS episode to find out how comprehensible you're really being for your students!

Links mentioned in the episode:
Sponge analogy on YouTube
Conference in the Cloud 2024

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19min
February 29, 2024 S2: E4- 50 Years from now...
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You're amazing... Don't forget it... There's a tiny homework assignment in this episode that will take 30 seconds but have a BIG impact!

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:
John Bracey
Work won't love you back - Sarah Jaffe
Blog on End of the Year Survey

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14min
February 11, 2024S2: E3- Finding Joy in the Journey: A Tale of Transformation
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Lack of Support
Lack of Engagement
Lack of resources
Lack of inspiration
Lack of community
You're not alone! Listen to Silvy's journey to JOY and transformative year within La Familia Loca PLC! The doors are open until Friday the 17th at 8pm CDT and I would love to be your support, cheerleader, and part of your community the rest of this school year!

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34min
February 01, 2024 S2: E2- Chairs and Cheers: Engage and Excel with these Teacher Tips!
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That was SUCH a fun episode to record! I hope it gives you lots of ideas for tracking all the amazing things happening in your classroom every day! Below are the many links and references I talk about throughout this juicy episode:

Tuesday Tip 39 - Seating Chart (a visual for you)
Interpersonal and Interpretive Communication Rubric Blog!
Mary P Overton Blog
Positive Phone Calls home blog (read it!)
Positive Phone calls home podcast (OMG SO GOOD!)
10 Day Brain Break Challenge! (YAY!)

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20min

FAQs about Teaching La Vida Loca:

How many episodes does Teaching La Vida Loca have?

The podcast currently has 100 episodes available.