Standards

My current program is the Secondary Education Program with Initial Certification in Spanish. This categorizes me under standards of the World Languages, grades 9-12. After looking at all of the standards, I have decided that the standard I will focus on this month will be cultures. I feel that the learning of cultures is not only important in understanding the language but a great and interesting tool in proper language acquisition. Cultures provide an inside look to the students that they can work with and draw comparisons to their own cultures.

Visual learning is a must in order to learn whatever cultures are being studied. Resources might not always be on hand, so turning to places like the Internet to obtain pictures and videos is always a plus. Students can take a much deeper look into a culture with the use of visual aids and because they can be interesting, the students are able to take in and be able to recall it later on. I would use a program like inspiration to take all of the ideas that the students come up with and organize it so that I could reshow it to the class in a more simplistic manner. This would again reinforce what the students learned without it seeming like a chunk of tedious vocabulary and grammar lessons.