Balance: Teaching Spanish to a diverse group of learners

1.

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.

2.

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)'

4.

Discipline

Negative reinforcement

Removal punishment

Possibility of avoiding an unpleasant task

Positive Reinforcement

Extrinsic rewards

intrinsic motivators

3.

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