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Monday, March 18, 2013

“Los colores de la montaña” - Introducing the imperfect

I added an addendum to the previous “Los colores de la montaña” worksheet. I am going to use the movie to introduce the imperfect tense in my SP2 class.

Here it is:

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Guía de estudio para la película “LOS COLORES DE LA MONTAÑA”

You can view it below and access it here

I added an addendum to the previous worksheet. I am going to use the movie to introduce the imperfect tense in my SP2 class.

Here it is:

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Reflecting on classroom activities

A redbrickED article by Joshua Sollie

ANALYZING THE VALUE OF CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

The effect of daily repetition of vocabulary with picture associations.

During a recent institute at our school Jim Burke was the featured speaker. One concept which he repeated several times and stuck with me was that we should be analyzing our classroom procedures and activities to determine which ones are effective and a good use of our time and resources. In other words, which activities are actually valid and help the students?

With that in mind, I decided to analyze a daily practice in my classroom which takes between 3-5 minutes a day. To practice vocabulary, I have created PowerPoints with the vocabulary words in the form of flashcards with the slides including the word and also a picture. We go over the words at least once every class period. It is a simple repetition exercise that probably takes between 3-5 minutes each class period during which the students repeat the words while viewing the PowerPoint. In practice I knew the repetition and picture association should help the students produce the words (the students are given the words in English and have to write the Spanish equivalent for their quiz), but had never analyzed this practice. To test whether this was a valid exercise, I did not do the repetition exercise for the last lesson of this quarter; although I did create flashcards that the students could view online to study on their own. I was unsure what the results would be, but was not surprised by the following:

PERIOD	QUIZ 1 W/ PPT PRACTICE	QUIZ 2 W/ PPT PRACTICE	QUIZ 3 W/ PPT PRACTICE	QUIZ 4 NO PPT PRACTICE
1^ST	Mean:9.7 Median:10.0	Mean:9.8 Median:10.0	Mean:9.0 Median:10.0	Mean:8.4 Median:9.0
5TH	Mean:8.8 Median:9.0	Mean:9.3 Median:10.0	Mean:9.1 Median:10.0	Mean:8.4 Median:9.0
6TH	Mean:8.9 Median:10.0	Mean:8.4 Median:9.0	Mean: 9.5 Median:10.0	Mean:7.9 Median:9.0

While I am sure there are several variables at play, it is significant that the lowest mean score for each
class is the quiz where the students were not presented with the words and phrases in a repetitive manner through the PowerPoint exercise. I am going to continue monitoring this practice throughout the fourth quarter and continue to analyze the value of this practice. It also made me think about the other activities I do in class. If an exercise that I do for three to five minutes a day has this type of an effect on student learning, what about the rest of the procedures and activities that I do in class. Are they as effective and do they provide the same types of results? If not, why? Even more importantly, why do I continue to do those activities?

A redbrickED study in collaboration with ENSENACONEXITO.BLOGSPOT.COM

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Fidel Nadal - “Te robaste mi corazón” y el pasado

Un ejercicio para trabajar la canción “Te robaste mi corazón” y el pasado pretérito y el uso del verbo doler.

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Y como siempre, el video:

Friday, August 31, 2012

La inmigracion y Chambao - Papeles Mojados

Un trabaja para hablar, discutir y aprender sobre la inmigracion. Incorpora la cancion "Papeles Mojados" de Chambao y un ejercicio compara la cancion con "Esperanza muere en Los Angeles" por Jorge Argueta

y el video:

y un link para el poema:

http://www.hiszpanski.ang.pl/forum/solo-en-espanol/128597

Juanes y el presente

Les doy una actividad para trabajar el presente. Se puede usar en conjunto con el trabajo sobre el presente y la ciudad de Mexico.

y el video:

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Actividad para repasar verbos - ar y la ciudad de Mexico

Saturday, August 18, 2012

GUIA DIDACTICA "ABEL"

Aquí les presento una guía didáctica para la película Abel de Diego Luna. La guía didáctica fue creada para la clase de A.P. Español Literatura y Cultura, pero podría servir para una clase de español avanzada. Se enfoca en el tema de las relaciones interpersonales