100 Awesome Resources for Spanish teachers

1. Billboard Latino – Check out top 100 for new songs for class
2. Pandora – Stream music based on genre, artist or song 
3. Batanga – Free Spanish music streaming
4. Latin Grammy Awards – listen to nominated music by genre
5. Lyrics Training – Free online cloze activities to practice listening skills for songs in many languages with varying levels of difficulty
6. Clozeline – Zachary Jones – Cloze activities & questions based on grammar focus
7. Cancionero – Zachary Jones – Song activities centered around a theme
8. Entrevista – Zachary Jones  – Interview with musicians (the resources are so awesome it deserved 3 separate mentions!)
9. Sharon Birch’s Music Pinterest Board & Music Database – she has all the best new music & the database can be sorted to find a song for any need
10. Baile viernes – my most popular post to date shows you how to incorporate dance in class
    

1. Teaching Spanish Thematic & Authentic – Kara Jacobs has entire upper level cultural units full of wonderful authentic resources. 
2. Teachers Pay Teachers – Buy lessons or whole units while supporting fellow teachers. 
3. TPRS Publishing – The amazing teachers guides provide a well rounded cultural unit. 
4. Amy Lenord’s Pinterest Boards  – Every authentic resource you could ever want is neatly categorized on her boards by theme or topic
5. The Comprehensible Classroom By Martina Bex – The storytelling units are amazing, complete and an affordable way to use comprehensible input lessons. 
6. Film in the Spanish Classroom – Resources to teach authentic Spanish films.
7. Film Arobics  – This site provides full movie units for purchase. 
8. Units for Spanish Class – Zachary Jones is the first place I go for ready to go activities using authentic sources. 
9. Jefferson County Public Schools – Here are great examples of planning WL curriculum outside of the framework of a textbook. 
10. Curriculum planning outside the textbook – Before you make the no textbook leap, check out great posts by Musicuentos on the topic. 

1. #langchat – WL teachers unite in my favorite PD – Thursday 7-8pm & Saturday 9-10am CST
2. #spanstuchat – a great opportunity for Spanish students & teacher to practice – 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month 8-9pm CST
3. #iaedchat – Iowa (& other!) educators discuss issues important to us – Sunday 8-9pm CST
4. #tlap – a super fast paced & lively chat about Dave Burgess’Teach Like a Pirate – Monday 8-9pm CST
5. #ReflectiveTeacher – reflect with other teachers – Tuesday 6-7pm CST

1. Amy Lenord – Amy the language coach inspires me to be a better teacher & person
2. Aventuras Nuevas  – Bethanie shares amazing and beautiful resources, including El Internado.
3. Bryce Hedstrom – A website chock full of resources for TPRS
4. El Mundo del Birch – Sharon has wonderful resources for music and teaching with novels.
5. Embedded Reading – Resources and ideas of how to incorporate comprehensible reading in class. 
6. En français, SVP! – Wendy shares her honest struggles & journey as a young French teacher.
7. Hearts for Teaching – Laurie shares CI resources like an old friend. 
8. Kristy Placido – Kristy shares TPRS resources as an expert author.
9. La Clase de la Senora Dentlinger – I have had the great pleasure to meet this awesome fellow Iowan teacher with inspiring ideas for new units. 
10. Language Sensei – Even though Colleen teaches Japanese her ideas for communicating in class can easily be applied to any language class. 
11. Lugar Para Pensar – Andrea has fresh ideas for how to spice up a language class. 
12. Maris Hawkins – The most frequent WL blog poster always has a great tidbit or idea to share. 
13. Martina Bex – Martina has all the resources to become a Ci teacher
14. MJ TPRS – Great resources for a CI teacher
15. Musicuentos – The archives are like a treasure chest of great ideas that will challenge the way you think & teach. 
16. My generation of Polyglots – Here is the El Internado holy grail of resources
17. señorita barragán – Crystal’s post about free reading in class convinced me to start my own class library. 
18. Somewhere to Share – Carrie Toth has a never ending supply of fun activities to complete with novels. 
19. Spanish Plans – Lots of resources and ideas for teaching Spanish
20. Sra Spanglish – Laura is the expert on genius hour and project based learning in WL
21. Teaching Spanish WIth Comprehensible Input – Cynthia has wonderful reading resources, especially with novels. 
22. Teaching Spanish Thematic & Authentic – Kara’s resources for her Culture & Civilization class are so great they deserve two spots on this list!
23. The Creative Language Class  – This is the first language blog I ever followed and my class uses so many of their routines including “La Bienvenida,” “Viernes Chant,” & “Friday Feedback.”
24. Williamson CI & TPRS – Dustin is another one of my favorite sharers of resources for El Internado.

1. Blog Lovin – This app is the game changer for becoming a regular blog reader.
2. Twitter  – The PD and resources shared on Twitter is something I wish I would have found sooner.
3. Pinterest  – Finding authentic resources and new blogs becomes an addiction on Pinterest.
4. Google Classroom – The organization of classroom has made transitioning to a 1:1 school a breeze. 
5. YouTube  – I use videos on a daily basis and love my baile viernes playlist.
6. Kahoot – Create fun online quizzes or search from those that are public
7. Duolingo – Free online/app practice of many languages. 
8. Trivia Crack  – Play this fun game in many languages for Choice Homework
9. Twitter Trends Map – Search through the trends in the country you are studying.
10. Word Reference – The anti translator, with options and forums.

Where to buy books for a WL classroom library

1. Books for all Children
2. Better World Books
3. Ebay – Here is how I got 240 books for $500
4. Amazon.es
5. Reading A-Z

1. El Internado – This is hands down the best engaging authentic listening for Spanish class.
2. Go! Vive a tu manera– cute teen show from Argentina
3. The Book of Life – A new animated film about the Day of the Dead.
4. Canela – A cute story of a girl & her grandma in Mexico, perfect for a unit on food. 
5. Vivo – Cute animated film set in Cuba and Florida
6. Coco – everyone’s favorite Day of the Dead themes movie
7. Which Way Home – A documentary about children traveling to the US on cargo trains. See how I used it here as a part of immigration unit. 
8. Sugar  – A story of a Dominican baseball player who tries to make it big in the US, that goes great with a baseball unit.
9. Under the Same Moon – Another great film for an immigration unit. 
10. Selena – A fun movie about Chicano culture. 

1. Students – It would be pretty boring to teach in an empty room, and my students’ feedback helps to make me a better teacher.
2. Face to Face Colleagues – Even as a #deptof1 in regards to world languages, these seasoned teachers at lunch can teach you SO much about classroom management by knowing each student individually at school. 
3. #langchat Online Colleagues – Thank you for allowing me to beg, borrow & steal all of your great ideas, as well as challenge me as a teacher. 
4. Blog Readers – Thank you for every comment, share, suggestion, or critique. I have come so far in these first 200 posts, and I can not wait to see what is to come!
5. Family & Friends – Having someone outside of the school bubble helps to keep things in perspective and allows a break away to recharge and come back ready to go for the students.