Preaching To Acquire

Kaitlin Leppert

I'm here preaching to help your students acquire languages! My goal is to inform, transform, inspire, and entertain you in efficient and effective episodes!

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104 episodes
Updated Apr 26, 2024

Episodes104

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Dec 1, 2021 · 7 min
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Kaitlin shares her feelings about the just recent school shooting.
Nov 27, 2021 · 17 min
Backwards Planning & Breaking Lessons into Small Pieces
Kaitlin has struggled this year with one of her classes that needs extra support. In this episode, she details how she is backwards planning from assessments and activities to break things down into small pieces to ensure understanding and success.
Nov 19, 2021 · 9 min
Happy Thanksgiving (students' thank you messages)
Kaitlin had her homeroom class write thank you cards to other people in the school including teachers and classmates. Listen as she reads some of them to you, and know that you're students are thankful for you, too!
Nov 10, 2021 · 16 min
Input is Input
Kaitlin shares her recent experience teaching a unit to her 6th grade with an emphasis on reading as input instead of listening and how it was successful! It also kept the classroom community a positive place for all students to acquire language.
Oct 16, 2021 · 10 min
Teaching a Class Novel The Fast Way
Kaitlin shares about how she approaches teaching a class novel in her classes and how she uses them as a springboard for content and cultural connections.
Oct 12, 2021 · 25 min
24. What? How?: Anchor Charts
Kaitlin explains what anchor charts are and how to use them in the world language classroom.
Oct 6, 2021 · 13 min
Give Yourself A Break
Kaitlin gets real about how school is going. She shares a bunch of different ways to take a "break" in your classes for your well-being.
Oct 3, 2021 · 10 min
23. What? How?: Class and Community Surveys
Kaitlin explains how to use class and community surveys in your classes for input and how to personalize them in order to go beyond the original questions.
Oct 2, 2021 · 28 min
Creating Assessments for Student Success
Kaitlin gives you 4 tips (and a whole lot of passion) to create assessments that are simple, equitable, and aligned to the standards. This podcast episode pairs with her free presentation for the World Language Teacher Summit that will be live for 48 hours on October 21st, 2021. Click here to register FREE or visit linktr.ee/preachingtoacquire
Sep 29, 2021 · 15 min
22. What? How?: Individually Created Characters (Invisibles)
Kaitlin explains how students can create their own characters and 2 options for ways to use these characters once they're made. One option relies more on output and one more on input.
Sep 27, 2021 · 23 min
21. What? How?: One Word Images (OWI)
Kaitlin talks you through the class character creation process for making a one word image.
Sep 26, 2021 · 13 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 7: Student Application and Assessment
Kaitlin shares different strategies for student application and assessment as well as the mindset and perspective she has when looking at student work from this portion of class.
Sep 25, 2021 · 7 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 6: Shared Reading
Kaitlin explains different strategies for shared reading.
Sep 25, 2021 · 8 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 5: Shared Writing
Kaitlin explains a few different strategies for shared writing, including ways to differentiate for more advanced learners.
Sep 24, 2021 · 5 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 4: Scaffolded Oral Review
Kaitlin shares about the quick but powerful part of the framework known as scaffolded oral review.
Sep 24, 2021 · 11 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 3: Guided Oral Input
Kaitlin explains how guided oral input is the heart of the lesson, how to support comprehension, and why keeping it short is the way to go.
Sep 23, 2021 · 17 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 2: Reading Workshop
Kaitlin shares 5 different ways to get students' eyes on text during reading workshop.
Sep 23, 2021 · 5 min
Daily Lesson Framework part 1: Norming the Class
Kaitlin is breaking down all 7 parts of the daily lesson framework. Today is about part 1: norming the class. It is usually 5 minutes or less of Kaitlin's lessons.
Sep 13, 2021 · 19 min
Using the Stepping Stones Writing Continuua to Set Student Writing Goals
Kaitlin explains how she would use the writing continuua that are a part of the Stepping Stones Curricular Framework to help students set individual writing goals and feel empowered in their writing.
Sep 11, 2021 · 11 min
Keeping My Students Motivated With Class Points
Inspired by Bryce Hedstrom and Annabelle Williamson, Kaitlin shares the point system she uses in her classroom to motivate students to make good choices and use the target language.