Are your high school French students failing to truly learn verb conjugations? Are they relying on technology for a quick conjugation but not internalizing those conjugations? Welcome to my Verb Card Project. I have been doing this project with my French classes since 2005, and it is just as useful today as it was back…
Consuming media in the target language is one of the best ways for language students to rapidly move their skills to a more advanced level. When you want to get your French learners (or really any language learners) to a point where they are using the language to learn new information, YouTube is a great…
Getting your middle and high school French students to quickly recall numbers in French can be a challenge. It seems like such a basic thing, but numerals are not words. I mean, yes, we have associated words to them, but the digits themselves are not words. When your students see numerals, their instinct is to…
Do you need a fun, interactive game to get your French students practicing counting in French? Let me introduce you to VINGT-ET-UN! This is a whole class game with no materials needed. You can start playing as soon as you have introduced your French students to numbers 1 to 21, and in no time they…
I’m Allison. I’m originally from Louisiana, and I have been teaching secondary French since 2005. I have taught all levels of middle and high school French from 6th grade through AP, as well as a few years of high school English. I taught in public school in the United States as well as private school, including an international boarding school. I also spent six years as a private school division director working with all subject area teachers on curriculum and teaching practices.
I lived and went to university in Paris in the early 2000s. At the end of the 2024 school year I said a tearful goodbye to my high school students to fulfill my passion of living in Europe once again. I now live with my family in The Netherlands where I spend my time running Mrs. Madame’s Classroom, writing fiction, and learning Dutch as a third language. Becoming a language learner again has given me good insight into the kinds of materials that language students need as I create materials for my store.
