Meet Rachel
Rachel Lucas is a highly experienced Spanish teacher and EdTech coach, boasting over 18 years in the field. She is renowned for her dedication to promoting effective language teaching through technology integration. Rachel is the driving force behind the World Language Teacher Tech Academy, an on-demand professional development community that equips language teachers with valuable tools and strategies. Her passion lies in creating inclusive and nurturing classroom environments where students are encouraged to speak in the target language without fear of making mistakes, fostering a culture of kindness, empathy, and understanding.
Rachel Lucas’ Sessions at the World Language Teacher Summit
How to Get Students to Speak in the Target Language
Fall 2023 World Language Teacher Summit
With extensive experience in teaching and technology integration, Rachel shares her insights, tips, and strategies for creating an engaging classroom environment that encourages students to communicate in the language they are learning. From the importance of providing ample input to the effective use of tech tools like FlipGrid, GimKit, and Seesaw, Rachel offers practical advice for fostering speaking skills in students of all ages. Dive deep into this transformative topic and discover how to empower our students to become confident speakers in the target language.
Skyrocket Student Engagement with Charlala
2020 World Language Teacher Summit
Rachel’s presentation shares ways to engage students and integrate technology with comprehensible input in the WL classroom. It focuses on how to get 100% student engagement, how to do ‘story asking,’ and use the ‘DrawStory’ feature of Charlala to flip your classroom. She demonstrates how to navigate the website and models how students could get creative when using this platform.
How to Manage Large Classes
2019 World Language Teacher Summit
Large and energy-filled classroom can challenge a teacher’s sanity! Using tech tools and organizational strategies, Rachel Lucas shares how she successfully manages classrooms with up to 53 students.
5 Must Have Tech Tools
Spanish Teachers Success Academy
In this presentation, Rachel Lucas introduces five of her current favorite tech tools for Spanish teachers: Spanish Games, Conjuguemos, Duolingo for Schools, Formative, and Mi Vida Loca (BBC). Ms. Lucas walks viewers through each of the five tools, pointing out the most useful and helpful aspects of each tool. She identifies ways in which each tech tool saves teachers time while students interact with the Spanish language in new and innovative ways. Teachers will be able to determine quickly if the tech tools recommended by Ms. Lucas will work for their lesson plans, and thanks to the thorough explanations by Ms. Lucas, teachers can quickly and easily implement any of the tools into their lesson plans.
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