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Spanish Teacher Confession: My teaching skills are better than my Spanish skills.

Teaching Spanish One for most of my career has deteriorated my Spanish skills.

 

I lived in South America for five years.  I have taught Spanish One for the past 20++ years and, sadly, I have heard more “sabo” and “me llamo es”- to the point I had stopped wincing.

I follow the usual advice: fall in love with a Telenovela and watch it with Spanish subtitles, go to a Spanish-speaking church, listen to Spanish stories while driving, volunteer, etc.

The fly in the ointment is that I need classroom Spanish – which I don’t use in other situations.  I found THE solution that has improved my skills and my confidence: I drench my students with Spanish transition videos. I use a remote presentation device and insert the videos into a daily ppt that has a slide for each class activity.  Sample lesson videos here.

This remote will change lives!
This remote will free you to walk around the room and stand strategically behind challenging students. It changes lives!

There are over 100 transition videos, and using 20 of them a day in my class saves my voice. Some are part of our daily routines with different ones for that day’s activities.  The accent and pronunciation of the native speaker singing falls out of my mouth.  People stopped asking me if I were from Brazil (Portuguese is my second language) and two actually asked if I am from Venezuela!

I heard them so much that it boosted my confidence and teachers receiving my students complimented me on their accent! 

It also gave me confidence to speak to native-speaker parents without fear.  I just heard so much Spanish all day long even though it was Spanish 01 – meaning not even a full year of Spanish –  just a year-long class to teach half of Spanish 1.

My colleagues and administrators noticed my new confidence and skills and although my specialty is wide-abilities students in Spanish One, a new administrator observed my class, was blown away with our 90% TL Spanish,  and gave me the honors class for the next level.  

If you want to structure your class, start with this slide set.  

IF  you need daily lessons for beginning the intro to Spanish, start here.

Here is a link to the basics.  Below is a partial list.  You can also use musical survival vocabulary to drench your students with teacher -to-student commands, student-to-teacher commands and the often overlooked student-to-student commands.  Scroll down for an assortment of videos.  Click for my free explanation videos.

Here is a partial list to give you an idea of the topics.

1.       Feliz Lunes
2.    Saquen la Tarea
3.    La Clase Va A Empezar
4.    60 Saludos
5.    Las Noticias
6.    Repaso
7.    Sacar Vocabulario
8.    Trabajar En Parejas
9.    Bingo
10.  Leer
11.  Músicas
12.  Saco Mi Agenda
13.  Desorden
14.  Hoy Aprendí
15.  Querido viernes
16.  Matemáticas
17.  Cumpleaños – 5
18.  Adiós Libros
19.  Cultura
20.  Partner of the week
21.  Dos filas
22.  Dibujar
23.  Mirar el video
24.  Regresar a sus pupitres
25.   Sacar los libros
26.   Tarjetas del vocabulario
27.  Escribir en español
28.  Sacar las computadoras
29.  Devolver las computadoras
30.  Matamoscas
31.  Simon Dice
32.  Charadas
33.  Baloncesto
34.  Quia
35.  Quizlet
36.  Kahoot
37.  Geopardy
38.  Juego de memoria
39.  Carreras
40.  Dar Direcciones
41.  Escucha y dibuja
42.  Meses
43.  Acorazado
44.  Dice – Dados
45.  Días
46.  Preguntas
47.  Bienvenido a la clase
48.  Martes amigo
49.  Miércoles
50.  Jueves
51.  Querido Estudiante M – F
52.  En hora Buena
53.  Me siento fatal – free
54. Dedo ROTO – free
55.  Adivina fechas
56.  Advina números
57.  Notas en linea
58.  Juego Juega
59.  Ojalá que Nieve
60.  El cubierto
61.  Bravo
62.  Date
63. Voluntarios
64. Lo acerté
65.  Habla, habla, cambia
66.  Saquén el protector
67. Sepárense
68. Levanténse
69.  Pásenme
70. Arreglen los pupitres
71.   Venezuela Anthem
72. EG Anthem
73. Honduras Anthem
74. Guatemala
75.  Costa Rica
76.
77.
78.
79.
80. Vamos a la alfombra
81. ausente
82. Encuesta signature
83. Encuesta class report
84. Rotating rows
85. Chequeen
86. Super Juego
87. Pobre ana
88. Pongan las hojas en la carpeta
89.
90. Custom Birthday for Ryan
91. Pongan las carpetas en el cuaderno
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.    Upper Level writing expressions
99.    ¿Es posible que hablemos?
100.
101.  Teléfonos a dormir
102
103   Réplicas Rejoinders
104   Lo veo-lo observo-me pregunto
105   Lo veo video with powerpoint
106   Lo veo with ppt preguntas
107   Lo veo video

 

All proceeds from the sale of these videos benefit three Venezuelan families.  You can purchase them individually, create your own bundle of 20 or more for a discount, or purchase the growing bundle – you buy them all and receive future ones for free.  Every year I add at least 10 of them.  Your school can pay for them through TpT for Schools.

You can help some starving Venezuelans
All net proceeds go to help three Venezuelan Families to survive their economic crises.

Spanish Class Hacks from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

survival-summary3 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

bundle-21-Spanish-Shorts2017 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

How to insert videos into PowerPoint and bundle the videos with the PowerPoint from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

bellringer survival vocabulary with native speaker music from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

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