The best part about this app is that the Duolingo staff is so receptive and supportive of feedback.

Sitting in the teacher chair or another “cool” chair.

The program speaks to them and has other sounds throughout.

Encourage students to use headphones to cut down on the noise.

Phones can only be used during the first few minutes of class when I can monitor everyone. This must be done on their computer though, not their phone.

I let students use Duolingo when they finish other work early.

If I see their phone at any other point during class, I take it directly to the office with no warning, so I have not had any problems yet!

Students in my school have their own Chromebooks, but I also let them bring their phone to class because we have found that the speaking activities work better on their phone.

(Update: My students gave the feedback that they started losing interest when the same kids kept winning and thought the top 3 winners should get prizes, so that is what we do now.) Helpful Tools for Classroom Management (Download here) My weekly winner also gets a prize, and I have included the prize board poster in the download as well. I have a bulletin board in my room entitled “Duolingüista” (This is the Spanish word I came up with for “duolingo-er”) and each class has a scoreboard where we write the winner’s name and their XP total. For every 100 XP points earned, they receive 1 point of extra credit. Students can play outside of class on their home computer or on their smartphone. They are encouraged to play outside of class too!Įxtra Credit:Duolingo is the only way to earn extra credit in my class now. We select the winner by the amount of XP points, because this totals how many minutes they spent practicing, including review.

Students are motivated to get to my class on time (or even early) so they have extra Duolingo time! When the buzzer goes off, they know to put away their device so we can begin class.įridays: Students begin a drumroll and I project the teacher dashboard to announce the winner each week. (No prep!!) I set a timer that covers the passing period and the first 5 minutes of class.

Teacher Tutorial Video – Student set-upĭaily: This is their bellringer.Teacher Tutorial Video – Setting up your dashboard.Students create an account and join my class:.

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