Sunday, January 25, 2015

Strategies For Composing Spanish Lesson Plans

By Janine Hughes


If you are new to teaching a particular subject, you may need some ideas to help you come up with daily schedules that your students can complete on time and without a lot of problems. With many schools across the country requiring teachers to teach more than one subject, you might find yourself assigned to a foreign language class. Even if you are not a native speaker, you can still come up with Spanish lesson plans that your students can follow and benefit from throughout the year. These strategies may allow you to teach your class effectively.

Even if you do not speak the language, you may still become a good teacher by playing games with your students. Kids of all ages love to play games in school. Along with using your textbook and workbook for the class, you may try a few different games to make the lessons more interesting. This technique also captures your student's interest.

Most kids know how to play bingo. As you say the letter of each bingo game in Spanish, you can match the letters with various vocabulary words. The goals of this activity will force the kids to listen to the pronunciation and also remember the names of each letter. It reinforces building a vocabulary that will come in useful if they take more advanced lessons later.

A less formal, yet still meaningful activity could involve labeling things in the room. Without allowing English to be spoken, you can have the students pick out things in the room that correspond with the words you are saying from the text or vocabulary list. Playing this activity a few times every semester could help the students pick up the lessons faster and also help them remember the words.

Many teachers also rely on movies and songs to teach their kids. Media spoken in the native language may seem to be rapid and hard to understand. It is true that many of your kids might not be able to understand most of what is being spoken or sang. However, they will grow used to hearing the speed of the language and also recognize one or two words every few sentences.

In addition to watching and listening to media, you also may be encouraged to try traditional learning methods. This approach may involve writing assignment, matching words on a worksheet, or reading a chapter in the textbook. Traditional assignments can likewise help your class learn.

You may evaluate how effective your schedule is by testing the students regularly. Many teachers administer tests every few weeks. You may strengthen their skills and test readiness by having them speak only in the language throughout class period.

Rather than despair about preparing lesson plans for a Spanish class, you may use these tips to devise schedules that are beneficial and meaningful. Having fun with the class can be one idea. Avoiding English can be another. After time, you may have students that are fluent speakers and you also could become an effective instructor in this subject. You would then avoid worrying about teaching it again in subsequent years.




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