for Spanish 1 Teachers

Teaching Spanish Joyfully -

• Saves you time! All the resources for a full school year are at your finger tips to adapt to your teaching style

• Gives you direction and management skills in teaching a Spanish 1 Class

• Incorporates best practices, strategies and resources in acquiring language

• Engages the students with fun, interesting and meaningful activities 

• Makes learning Spanish real while applying it to their own interests and lives

• Creates a classroom community where students can interact, work together, collaborate, play games, enjoy music and feel a genuine connection with you and each other

• Utilizes all 4 components of language: listening, speaking, reading and writing

• Is progressive in that each lesson builds upon previous skills to grow their Spanish

• Uses Comprehensible Input (CI) during a good part of the lesson when only Spanish is heard, spoken or read with clues, visuals and techniques that help with comprehension  

• Follows the events of the calendar each month and enjoys special days like celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month or learning to make corn tortillas and the origin of maize

• Is culturally driven, not separating the language from the people who speak it and the traditions they embrace

• Implements the goal areas of World-Readiness Standards for learning languages

• Makes teaching more enjoyable

• Check out how to get started!