This session explores how to engage students in the Spanish classroom to help them build communicative proficiency. Participants will take part in instructional strategies and practices that are at the heart many programs. Using creativity and collaboration, they will determine how to utilize these successfully in their own classrooms to motivate their students to communicate.
In this presentation, participants will gain an enhanced understanding of different types of questions that guide our instruction as world language teachers, such as unit essential questions, focus questions for lessons/activities and how to lead a discussion. They'll also examine different levels of rigor in questions and practice creating high-rigor questions.
Want to enhance your classroom playlist? Come see how you can post songs and create activities in your LMS that are centered in music from around the Spanish-speaking world. Participate in an interactive session that highlights songs that showcase culture and all the tenses we teach. Let’s share the songs we use to enhance our upbeat classrooms while promoting cultural understanding for students.
This summer as the recipient of the 2023-24 Centro MundoLengua travel grant, I was fortunate enough to travel to Madrid, Spain for a week for Advanced Placement training and immersive cultural experiences. In this session, the participants will be introduced to Centro MundoLengua. After discussing the immersive cultural experiences, have attendees brainstorm how they could adapt similar activities in their classrooms. If you are curious about professional development opportunities abroad and cultural enrichment, join me!
Are you interested in antiracist pedagogy in the Spanish classroom but don’t know where to start? Join this session to see how you can scaffold assignments in a way that guides students through the use of language and culture from vocabulary building to learning about culture and leads them to deeper reflection about questions of identity and race.
Professor of Spanish, Point Loma Nazarene University
Full time university Spanish professor, implementing antiracist pedagogy into all levels of language instruction. I specialize in contemporary Latin American literature, art and culture, as well as film, politics and human rights movements.
Sunday March 9, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am PDT
Great Room 7
