Technology provides an opportunity to transform traditional lectures into an interactive experience, making a simple lesson very exciting. My lesson plan is Spanish K-4, Calendar Unit which introduces the concepts of months, numbers, days of the week and basic questions related with the mentioned concepts. Much of foreign language is practicing linguistic fundamentals consider by many students to not be exciting.
As a technology immigrant educator, I can enhance a mundane unit with interactive instruction.
Through high speed Internet, classroom smart boards and inexpensive web cams the class will conduct a live classroom session with an English language class in Mexico. Once a week we will have an activity where students will ask each other questions such as: What day is today?/ Que dia es hoy?, What do you do on the weekends?/Que haces los fines de semana? . American students will use their Spanish and Mexican students will use their English. Exposing children to listening and speaking any language helps to develop their understanding and pronunciation in a foreign language.
Also utilizing available technology, students will visit the computer lab where they will create their own month of March. They will type in Spanish the activities that they perform during this month. This activity will improve their spelling and increase their vocabulary.
Not only we will embrace diversity but we also open children's eyes to another culture.
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Great job. I love the live webcast interaction between the english class and language class in Mexico. That's definitely the way to go.
I know if I could have been in your "live classroom" I would be able to really speak Spanish after three years of high school classes! As an extra assignment could these kids negotiate a better rate on a Cancun vaca?!
Wow, Ady. I'm with Elizabeth--I definitely want to sit it on your class!! (Even without the discount Cancun rate!) Very exciting.
Great idea with the live webcasting. Wish we would have done that when I took spanish in high school, let alone elementary school. This idea may be the "thing" of the future for all spanish classrooms. Adios.
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