Teaching Warriors
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Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
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Robert and Jeanine Guerrera are a teaching couple with a combined 42 years of teaching experience between them. They have taught in public and private school settings in the U.S., Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Switzerland. Their experience includes elementary education, IB PYP, music, middle and high school history and geography, AP (German, Spanish), IB DP (A1, A2, B German), vocational courses, and environmental science. Jeanine has also led a workshop for the IBO introducing the new curriculum to experienced teachers and held tutorials in linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Rob has authored and published the middle grade novel "Zero Is The Key" which he and other teachers are using in social studies classes.
Currently, Jeanine is homeschooling their two sons (4th and 6th grade) and teaching at a local homeschool co-op while Rob has switched back into a business career.
With their broad background, they have been teaching a variety of subjects like language arts, foreign languages, mathematics, science, social studies, environment, and music.
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Hidden Message - Cryptography 101
Welcome to the fascinating world of cryptography, the world of hidden messages!
This unique and comprehensive course contains detailed and illustrated explanations of substitution ciphers, transposition ciphers, and steganography. There are plenty of activities for individual students, groups, or the entire class.
For this course, the spotlight is given to the following ciphers and codes that students can apply themselves such as Atbash, Caesar Shift, Mixed Alphabet Cipher, Pigpen, Morse Code,
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Math, Performing Arts
Conjugation Games - Konjugationsspiele Deutsch
In this download you will receive two different conjugation games students can play in groups of four. In a fun way, students can repeat and practice German verb forms. All you need are four pegs and one die per group, two dice if you want to play the extended game described on the back page of each game. The extended game includes more verbs and/or different times. The player to reach the beach first wins.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
German
DIY From Scratch - 1 Bread and Batter
Bake bread and so much more from scratch with ingredients you can also pronounce!
Bread and Batter is the first bundle in the DIY From Scratch Series and consists of detailed yet easy to follow recipes for Zopf, spelt bread, recess energy rolls, vegan spelt bread, hot dog and hamburger buns, croissants, focaccia, wheat and spelt pizza dough, Oma's apple pie, quiche, pancakes (regular, vegan, gluten free, and buckwheat), Swiss omelets, French crêpes, and corn tortillas.
Happy baking!
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Other (Math), Other (Science)
Kreatives Schreiben - Klassenkrimi
This unit ultimately leads a classroom to write a crime novel together. After an introduction and some exercises in creating fictional figures, in how to build up tension, in how to involve the reader, the student learns about the rules of creating a fair crime story. Even though the rules are almost a hundred years old, they are the base of discussions of dos and don'ts in crime story composition.
A detailed grading roster is provided at the end of the document.
6th - 12th, Adult Education
German
IB German B Tourism Project
The students are set into a mountain village that is lacking tourists. In an town hall meeting, they discuss ideas about how to attract tourists and develop a brochure. This project consists of research, an interactive oral activity, and the creating of the brochure.
This project is for both higher and standard level.
11th - 12th
German
Conjugation Games - Jeux de Conjugaison
In this download you will receive two different conjugation games students can play in groups of four. In a fun way, students can repeat and practice French verb forms. All you need are four pegs and one die per group, two dice if you want to play the extended game described on the back page of each game. The extended game includes more verbs and/or different times.
The player to reach the beach first wins.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
French
Aktiv und Passiv
One of the hardest topics in German grammar seems to be active and passive voice. This unit approaches the topic in a more intuitive way since students do use the passive voice without realizing it. The different uses including manipulation through passive voice are elaborated. The unit starts with a comparison of the German active and passive voice with English, French, and Spanish. It also entails tables of the different times, a guide to build the passive voice, and open ended creative exerci
11th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
German
Konjunktiv
In this self explanatory mini-course, the German verb form "Konjunktiv" is introduced with a poem. Students then deduct the building rules and work on building the correct forms of Konjunktiv 1 and Konjunktiv 2.
Further, the use of Konjunktiv 2 to express wishes is explained and will be trained in a creative way, followed by the use of the mixed Konjunktiv in the indirect speech.
A handy tool to either introduce or review the topic. The handout for the student is 6 pages long, followed by expla
11th - 12th
German
Conjugation Games - Juegos de Conjugación
In this download you will receive two different conjugation games students can play in groups of four. In a fun way, students can repeat and practice German verb forms. All you need are four pegs and one die per group, two dice if you want to play the extended game described on the back page of each game. The extended game includes more verbs and/or different times.
The player to reach the beach first wins.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Spanish
Genitive Prepositions - Genitivpräpositionen
Prepositions with the genitive case are not as common. However, they are very elegant and show an advanced level of German. And, it is not as hard to grasp them. This unit gives an overview of all prepositions (accusative, dative, genitive) with focus and exercises on genitive prepositions, including solutions.
11th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
German
DIY From Scratch Series Introduction
In the times of fast pace everything, cooking from scratch creates a small haven of slow life. Cooking meals and baking breads from scratch empowers children and adults with independence. And it is surprisingly easy to prepare everything from scratch with ingredients one can actually pronounce. Cooking and baking is educational, fun, and interdisciplinary.
The DIY From Scratch Series contains 6 thematic bundles of 12+ recipes or portraits each will be added over time: 1 Bread and Batter / 2 Des
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Other (Math), Other (Science)
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About the store
Experience
Robert and Jeanine Guerrera are a teaching couple with a combined 42 years of teaching experience between them. They have taught in public and private school settings in the U.S., Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Switzerland. Their experience includes elementary education, IB PYP, music, middle and high school history and geography, AP (German, Spanish), IB DP (A1, A2, B German), vocational courses, and environmental science. Jeanine has also led a workshop for the IBO introducing the new curriculum to experienced teachers and held tutorials in linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Rob has authored and published the middle grade novel "Zero Is The Key" which he and other teachers are using in social studies classes.
Currently, Jeanine is homeschooling their two sons (4th and 6th grade) and teaching at a local homeschool co-op while Rob has switched back into a business career.
With their broad background, they have been teaching a variety of subjects like language arts, foreign languages, mathematics, science, social studies, environment, and music.
Teaching style
Both like to teach implementing a project based, inquiry teaching style using some worksheets for the basics.
Jeanine is also an advocate in getting children to cook and bake. She ties in language, science, and maths assignments into her culinary activities.
My own education history
Jeanine ---
1994 - Baccalaureate in Maths and Sciences;
1996 - Grosses Latein. Latin degree (6 years of Latin studies);
2000 - Masters Degree in German and Spanish Linguistics and Literature (University of Zurich, Switzerland);
2004 - HLM - High School teachers certificate (University of Zurich, Switzerland) ---
Robert ---
1988 - Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts Education;
1992 - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Marketing Management, minor in Industrial Psychology, 1996 - Teaching certificate elementary education PK-6 self contained (TX, FL);
2000 - Teaching certificate social studies composite 6-12 (TX)
Additional biographical information
Robert and Jeanine are residing in Florida with their two boys. -
Jeanine is a member of the American Mensa. She is a bilingual German and French speaker and also speaks English, Spanish, and some Italian. -
We chose the name "Teaching Warriors" not because we consider teaching something martial. No, "warriors" is just the English translation of our Portuguese last name "Guerrera". ;-)
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