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Just Prep during Your Prep Spanish Class Lesson Template for Daily Tech Guide

July 28, 2019 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

How to create your own CI classroom using a PPT/Google Slides with links to CI activities .

Game Changer Alert! If you want to structure your class with routines and varied activities, stay in the target language and prep for each lesson during your prep and not at home, then use this PowerPoint template. Use it every day to establish routines and create an interesting class. Choose from among the 75 activity slides for your activities. Never forget something you wanted to do in class because you have a slide for it.

Save each day’s presentation “daily tech guide” in a folder with handouts and label it day 1, day 2, day 3, etc. and next year spend even less time prepping for the day’s lesson. If you have already purchased a bundle of videos or the videos included below, go here and I will send you the template.

Some of the routine videos are embedded. You can always add more by clicking on the icon on top of the slide. There are 75 suggested activities and many have links to blogs. This is a growing bundle. Follow instructions inside to join our group and share new activities that we can add to the resource. Or send me your email for monthly updated slides.

It doesn’t open in a Chromebook if you want a Google Drive™ version, click here.

After downloading, if you want to order a bundle of videos, email me and I will insert them for you and set up your custom bundle.

You should use a remote presentation device or wireless mouse so that you can stand anywhere in the room and click to the next slide.

You will need to be able to open a zipped file to find:

  • 1 PowerPoint to use in class with 95 + slides and appealing visuals
  • 1 La clase va a empezar video.
  • 1 Hoy aprendí video.
  • 1 Role video.
  • 1 ¿Cual es la fecha de hoy? video
  • 1 Saluden a tus compañeros video snip.
  • 1 Gracias por aprender video.
  • 1 Días de la semana video.
  • 1 Dedo roto video.
  • 1 Me siento fatal.

The PowerPoint is editable, but if teammates, coworkers or a school or a school district would like to use my resources, there is a multiple user license that is available at a reduced price.

Are you like me and wish for four things this school year?

 

13 Minutes of Instructions on how to personalize  your template.

 

If you would like to purchase the template with the videos, click here.

If  you would like to join our FB group and share new activities and slides, click here.

All net proceeds help three Venezuelan families – meet them in this video as they open three boxes I sent to them.

 

 

If you want to read more about class structure and transition videos, read my blog here.

If your school won’t provide you with these tools, you may consider this:

Filed Under: 90% Target Language Class, Classroom Management, Daily Songs Improve Classroom Structure, Improve Class Behavior, New Teacher, Transition Videos, Visual Comprehensible Input Tagged With: ci, new Spanish teacher, new teacher, SOMOS, Spanish Class Routine, spanish class songs

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The Ultimate Guide to Proactively Teaching Spanish Class Social Skills _ New Student _ Interrupting _ Emails _ Congrats _ Random Partners _ I’m Not Your Dictionary

January 14, 2019 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

 

Delivering Classroom Expected Behaviors up front in an impersonal way rather than in a reactive way to one specific student strengthens your classroom management.

Why are students so thin-skinned and where do they learn their social skills?

When I started teaching in the 80’s, teachers were expected to be caring adults providing boundaries and feedback about appropriate behavior.

In 2020, when responding to a student’s inappropriate behavior, I am contacted by parents about their concern that I don’t like their child. I fear that students are learning their social skills from social media; many are  not making the correct leap from talking to Alexa to talking to their teacher.

After thirty plus years of teaching the same age group, I can predict certain topics that come up every year and rather than correct a student for being inappropriate, I proactively give direct instruction on social skills using catchy musical videos to everyone.  Thus, when a student is interrupts, or treats me like a walking dictionary, the rest of the class breaks out into song and the correction is considered impersonal rather that a personal correction.

We, my Venezuelan friends and I, have  created six musical videos sung in Spanish to demonstrate these skills.  See the video below about the Venezuelans who make the songs and videos and how all net proceeds go to them as this is my charity work.

1. How to treat a new a new student.

It includes offering to escort the new student to his or her next class, offering to eat lunch together, sharing recent classwork, and welcoming them to the class.

2. How to write an email to a teacher.

Many students write emails to teachers as if they were texting a friend.  This social skill video reminds students to identify themselves, address the teacher by name and use querido, atentamente, por favor, gracias.  The video reminds them that their future bosses may not know how capable they are because their poor manners.

3. Asking if now is a good time before just talking at the teacher with different requests.

This will save you from middle school teacher burnout!  I share rooms and am rushing into set up my laptop and complete a variety of housekeeping tasks and it can take my last ounce of patience when a student just starts talking to me in a long-winded story.  Now they know to first ask if now is a good time and if it isn’t I always circle back to them.  This has made for much more pleasant relationships and a smooth start to class.  It may very well help them to keep future jobs.  Parents tell me they love it when I explain it to them at Open House and they also use it with me!

4. The expected behavior with random partners

The best way to ensure that students get along in a class is to use random grouping cards and explain to them the importance of learning how to work with everyone.  All of the directions are included along with the video.  Be the adult in the class and set the expectation that they must work with anyone for a week at a time  and they will.  Let’s fight the growing tide of selected social media narrowing the variety of  exposure that students have to different kinds of people.  By the end of the year, substitute teachers and students will comment on how well the class gets along.

5. How to congratulate someone.

We must give our students direct instruction on how to congratulate one another in the target language.

Use this musical video, and ‘en hora buena’ and ‘felicitaciones’ will roll off their tongues at appropriate times.

6. Tell your students you are not their dictionary.

It is a playful reminder to look up the words they should know rather than just rely on the teacher to be their dictionary.

Let’s further examine this issue of asking Spanish teachers to be a walking dictionary.

Students in our classes are accustomed to asking Alexa questions at home and getting immediate answers.  When I first started teaching, we spent a couple of days using paper dictionaries and teaching them how to look up infinitives and other basic skills.  Now we train them to use Word Reference while they may still very well be ‘Google Translating’ their homework.

I even had a parent send me a google translated e-mail – and she has never studied Spanish.  She thought I would be so impressed!  But I digress.

We train our students to ask three before me or use three before me or write their name on the board with the word they need help with in the hopes  a classmate will help out.

But the best solution is to teach them the song “No soy tu diccionario” and when they forget and ask you how to say something the rest of the class breaks out into the song.

It works!

Every year students want to learn how to insult one another in Spanish.  They will ask me how to say “stupid” in Spanish so that they can insult one another.

You do you with your teaching voice,  but my response,  said with the sweetest, most sincere drippy concern of a grandmother, “oh honey, I see why you feel that way about yourself but it would break my heart to have you talk about yourself that way, no I just can’t add to your negative self-talk – you are just too good!”  This puts the kid in checkmate – can’t admit he/she wants to use it for others and the whole class is laughing about my thinking he/she wants to call himself/herself stupid when clearly the intention is to insult someone else.

Using direct instruction of these social skills has improved my happiness in the classroom and reduced my sense of ‘burn-out’ –  I used to be annoyed that so many students were learning their social skills from apps and not from interaction with caring adults.  So I decided that I need to be the change that is needed and it has made all of the difference for them and for me.

 

All net proceeds help three Venezuelan families – meet them in this video as they open three boxes I sent to them.

 

If you want to read more about class structure and transition videos, read my blog here.

 

If your school won’t provide you with these tools, you may consider this:

 

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“What are your best classroom resources for Spanish 1 first time taking Spanish?”

June 29, 2016 By Personal thoughts and beliefs of E.B.Shrager - do not represent those of any past or current employer.

Tee Denombre asked this  great question on the FB page “Spanish Teachers in the US.”

My students respond to compelling Comprehensible Input – especially audio that is supported with a strong visual.

Picture4 Picture10Students (and their parents!) can pull out phrases from a song months after I have played it in class as part of my “song of the week” series.  Music seems to attach to the long-term memory fairly easily but I have noticed that many of my students recently seen to just latch on to the chorus while previously students would latch on to the whole song.

Is this a direct correlation to their social media connections being so brief? Picture14

I don’t know but this year I started to make brief transition videos and they are ‘sticky’ —  students can go through a class and sing the 30 – 60 seconds songs and voice overs for as many as eight transitions.

I’ve also noticed that they work the vocabulary into their conversations in Spanish in class.  For example, my seventh graders sing the “Saquen la tarea” song while taking out their homework and really punch the ‘ya’ at the end.  Then they start to use it in class – spontaneously.Picture12

A chance encounter with some Venezuelans looking for work as musicians started the idea of having native speakers perform these songs and now we are rolling out this series of over 50 transitions on TPT.

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How do you get started?   Use a remote mouse or presentation device so you can click from anywhere in the room.  Make an outline of your lesson, insert a slide for each activity, and then insert a Spanish Transition Video to introduce it.

Soon your students will be trained to use Spanish even for those challenging transitions – you may be surprised that certain students usually looking for opportunities to get off task instead are watching and participating in the Picture9music!

Below  is a sampling of some of the transition videos.

If you are looking for Picture2

fun resources that stick in students’ brains and pop out spontaneously,

resources to help you and them stay in the target language,

resources to improve classroom behavior and make  your class more fun,

then  look below and pick the ones that match your teaching style.  Fifteen are available this week with the rest be completed this summer.

 

 

 

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ PREVIEW VIDEO CLIP ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Feliz Lunes – Start the week off thinking in Spanish

Al Principio de la Clase – train students to stop talking when the video ends.

Saquen la Tarea – after a few days it will be easier to do this in Spanish than English

Sesenta Saludos – Take attendance while students try a new one each day.

Las Noticias Internacionales – perfect introduction to daily headline reading

Repaso Diario – Great intro to daily review

Grupos de Dos – Students learn how to get together with their partner without using English!

¡Vamos a Jugar charadas!

La Cultura – Fascinating way to remind students of all of the elements of culture!

¡Que desorden, Señor! – Clever and Colorful reminder to clean up room!

Adiós Libros – Perfect Transition to Clearing Desks for Assessment

Perfect Transition to New Song by showing 10 genres of music sung in Spanish

Saco Mi Agenda – Students will soon be singing along and writing down their homework.

Querido Viernes – The perfect pack-up for the weekends song that has students singing in Spanish all weekend.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ If you have an idea for a song or transition video contact me and maybe we can make one for you! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

 

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