Balance: Teaching Spanish to a diverse group of learners
Gender
Male needs
Cool colors on the Presentation
Speaking up: Enunciating the words clearly and having the students repeat them
Female needs
warm colors on spanish presentation
applicability: Showing how spanish vocab is used in every day situations by putting on a small play.
cognitive hooks
Locci:
Use location of classrooms and the cafeteria to teach Spanish Vocab
Create labels and have students try to correctly label things around the class
rhyming
Teaching vocab through spanish songs
Teaching through spanish poems (Basic level)'
Discipline
Negative reinforcement
Removal punishment
Possibility of avoiding an unpleasant task
Positive Reinforcement
Extrinsic rewards
intrinsic motivators
Different Learning styles
Hands on learning
Vocab games: Such as a spanish version of life where each tile has a spanish vocab term to learn
Create a drawing project where students draw and label spanish objects
Group-work time
Dividing the class into groups and have them read spanish childrens books and identify vocab
review time: allow students to review the lecture material within their teams