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WQ #9: Your Guest Lesson
Description
Bienvenidos!
Today was your first visit to your partner school. The students and the
teachers were excited to meet you and your students. Your students sang
songs in Spanish and greeted their new friends in Spanish and the whole
school welcomed you all warmly. The principal and the teachers have been
waiting eagerly to learn more from your ideas and practices. Your innovative
ideas in your classroom have been respected so much from the beginning
of the project.
Tomorrow, as a part of the project, you are going to give a guest lesson
(demonstration) for a Kindergarten class. You are going to teach geometric
shapes in English but using some Spanish words, including the names of
the shapes. Are you ready?
Task
Your task now is to make a lesson plan for tomorrow’s demonstration. You may use English for the lesson, but at least the key vocabulary words (names of geometric shapes) need to be taught in Spanish. In fact, the more you use Spanish, the easier for the students to understand your lesson. You may build your lesson plan based on the structure that you have been using for your classroom. However, as your demonstration will model the best practice, you will need to provide enough details so that all the teachers can understand and follow the lesson plan.
Resources
A. Basic information and activity on shapes
Literacy Center™ - The Early Childhood Education Network™
http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_es.htmEnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languagebooks/spanish/shapes/Amnesia-El-Juego
http://amnesia.eljuego.free.fr/Vocabulario/geometria.htm
B. Sample Activities
Actividades Infantiles y Educacíon Preescolar
http://www.first-school.ws/sp/themesp/formas.htm
Process
Conclusion
What
a great lesson! Your lesson is not only effective to teach the young students,
but also models the best practice for the partner teachers. It also indicates
that you do understand the Spanish terms and are able to use it for authentic
purposes (e.g. teaching).
Keep up your good work!
National Standards (ACTFL)
Communication
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information,
express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Connections
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other
disciplines through the foreign language.
Communities
Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school
setting.
Sunshine State Standards – Foreign Languages (9-12)
Communication
(FL.A.3.4)
Standard 3: The student presents information, concepts, and ideas to an
audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Connections
(FL.C.1.4)
Standard 1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines
through the foreign language.
Experiences
(FL.E.1.4)
Standard 1: The student uses the language within and beyond the school
setting.
Possible display: Standards (numbers and category) may be displayed and the contents can be displayed by mouse-over or clicking.
Evaluation
Your lesson plan can be evaluated with following criteria.
| Excellent | Good | Weak | Note | |
| Number of Spanish shape terms selected | More than 5 terms | 3-4 terms | Less than 3 terms | |
| Will the partner students (K-grade, Spanish speaking) be able to understand the lesson? | Strongly Agree | Agree | Uncertain | |
| Is the lesson prepared in detail? | Strongly Agree | Agree | Need more work | |
| Number of directions in Spanish used | More than 3 directions | 1-3 directions | No attempt | *
Optional *Classroom directions, or commands |
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