Copy of Spanish II : Virtual Open House

Hello. My name is Alexis Stinnett and I'm the Spanish

one teacher at the high school.

Thank you so much for watching this video.

And I hope you get to learn a little bit

more about me.

So here are some things about me.

First I teach manage one and two at the high

school. I didn't mention that before.

I only have one section of Spanish, one students.

A majority of the students take Spanish, won the junior

high. Eso I only have one section.

We usually have about 10 to 20 kids in each

Spanish one class.

So this year we have a group of about 14

which is a really good class size.

I got my undergrad and Spanish education from NK You

and I have my master's degree in educational technology from

Miami University.

I studied in Spain for a semester when I was

getting my undergrad, and I am also the student council

adviser here at the high school.

So I have about 20 students that I work with

that help make decisions for different events and any decisions

that need to be made that needs to be the

student input.

They help make those decisions, so I am their advisor

for them.

So for class, curriculum and supplements, we use the so

most curriculum, which is a wonderful curriculum that uses storytelling

in cultural exploration.

Um, each unit that we do has a story that

relates Thio whatever topic or theme that we're doing.

And then we also each unit will have some type

of cultural component as well.

We will focus on a lot of different countries this

year. We're currently focusing on Hispanic Heritage Month, so we

do holidays.

Eso we just I like to teach a lot about

culture and different ways that people live around the world.

We also use garbanzo, which is an online reading platform,

and it has interactive lessons where it builds on the

vocabulary that we're using through so most so it's almost

like garbanzo are connected.

We also used in your Woolley as part of our

curriculum. So he is a former teacher who creates curriculum

for for teachers and for students, and hey creates songs

and music videos and has a interactive digital platform that

the students really enjoy.

That ends up being one of the favorites for the

students every year.

Each class eso, Spanish one and Spanish, too, but Spanish

one specifically will read to fluency comprehension based readers.

And so these are short books that were made for

Spanish learners by people who are native Spanish speakers, and

we usually devote about a month to each book.

So coming up in October, who will read our first

one called El Copy, and then we'll read another one

around April, and that one is called Brendan Brown, Pero

so with these readers, it's a really it's a big

confidence builder for the Spanish one students, especially because they

can say that they read an entire book in Spanish,

and the students really like them.

It includes a lot of culture and a lot of

different themes that are relevant to today's kids.

And then also we use comprehensible, input based activities, which

essentially means that I am speaking to them in Spanish,

asking for their input.

They're receiving the language, and then as they get better

with receiving the language, we start to push for the

output, meaning that they're able to speak.

They're able to write, read eso.

It was Spanish one.

We have a lot of newbies, so it's a lot

of just me talking and having them absorb it.

And then as we get through the year, they start

to produce a lot more of the language, which is

awesome to see.

So in class we'll talk a lot about the path,

the proficiency.

So this is a scale that we use.

Thio essentially base where the student is on their proficiency

in the language.

It starts at Novice Low, which is where the majority

of Spanish one students are and goes all the way

up to advanced high.

There is no expectation that within the heist, their high

school career that they will be within the advanced range,

each sub range.

So novice, low to novice and the novice madam novice

high so and so forth.

The higher you go up in the range, the harder

it is to go into that next level.

So we usually see a big jump from novice loaded

novice mid and then novice mid two novice high.

But once we start getting from novice high into intermediate

and into the advance, it's a lot harder to make

that jump, so it could take years to get there.

Um, so our goal for Spanish.

One is you have students within the novice mid two

novice high range.

Now that's not saying that, um, they get an A,

B, C, D or F.

I don't base it on their grade essentially, but it's

more based on what they're able to dio.

So these proficiency scales have.

I can statements, and we usually go through and have

the students decide if they can dio the ICANN statement.

Then that puts them into a certain range, and we

gauge that towards the end of the year.

Here's my contact information.

Emails Best.

It's a stint at Emory Mont schools Dot or GE.

I checked periodically throughout the day and then also will

check, usually at night time.

But I don't always get back to you until the

next morning, but I try.

Try to give me 24 hours to get back to

you. Um, I do have a phone in my room.

If females not working, you can call and leave a

voicemail, and I'll try to get back to at the

end of the day.

But number is 513272 of 7658 And if you are

for allowed in the building at some point.

Um, if you stop by on in room number 12

in the world language area, and I already touched based

on this but I just wanted to reiterate, since we

are in kind of an online platform slash hybrid slash

in class, we do use a lot of technology with

my background in ad tech.

We use a lot of technology as well just because

I'm very comfortable with it.

So some of the resource is that we'll use this

year school aji quiz lit garbanzo, which I already mentioned,

and then G suite.

We use a lot of Google based APS Thio complete

assignments. So again, I want Teoh.

Thank you for watching this video and I hope to

meet you all at some point during this year, face

to face.

But thanks so much and

Copy of Spanish II : Virtual Open House

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