Building Relationships

Conversations are the first step in the Immediate Immersion Way. They are a way to get to know your students and build solid student relationships through the target language.

Email is a great way to establish and maintain great relationships with both. Writing weekly update emails to both your parents and your students builds authentic relationships while keeping everyone in the loop.

Show & tell is a great activity that allows students to show who they are while using the target language in a less stressful way. It's also a great way to build classroom community.

Replay of our latest Immediate Immersion LIVE! show where we talked about building student relationships.

Students already face so much negativity in their lives each and every day. We may not be able to change everything, but we can add a bit of positivity to each and every student!

In 2010, I finally learned what Susie Gross had been telling us all along. She had been saying to us that you need to love every child, even if you don't. I had heard the words for years, but it didn't really sink in until fall of 2010, but the story begins a year earlier.